Please stop getting hung up on the fact that your wife's movies are pirated. The fact of the matter is that your wife, more than ever, has access to such a large global scale audience that was never available in the past with the traditional movie studio system. Mind you, legal indie video distribution networks with millions of users.
You are basically focusing on the fact that there is a small minority of internet users who are downloading your wife's movie illegally. You are so fixated with pirating that that you are not completely focusing on efforts to make your wife's movie available to new mediums in the U.S. and around the world.
In fact you are so one sided you fail to explore the possibility that viral distribution might help you. Some indie directors are in fact trying to get their movie to spread via BitTorrent and other mediums to drive sales and gain more awareness. Wihtout the internet where would Trey Parker and Matt Stone be?
Either way, saying someone is pirating your movie as an excuse to burn down the internet is short sighted.
I don't think he is saying at all to burn down the internet, just that each person who would have watched his wife's film by paying for it, but didn't since a free copy was available instead online hurts their financial situation and also her 'popularity' since these views are never able to be tallied.
That is what I am saying. On the net, people will download the copy for free but it is a small minority. Make ipods, there will be knockoffs. Make hand bags, there will be knockoffs. Make cars, yes cars, there will be knockoffs. It is part of business. Make a unique site and get funded by VCs, there will be copycats funded by other VCs. Welcome to the world of business. But largely, if the movie is good there are soo many LEGAL distribution points. Focus your energy on those.
As much as I hate piracy, it really might have the opposite effect for indie artists. It might make her more popular since indie artists DO NOT have massive marketing budgets.
> In fact you are so one sided you fail to explore the possibility that viral distribution might help you. Some indie directors are in fact trying to get their movie to spread via BitTorrent and other mediums to drive sales and gain more awareness.
So you're saying that they should give in and accept that people are going to pirate and use it to their advantage? Does that not seem defeatist?
You are basically focusing on the fact that there is a small minority of internet users who are downloading your wife's movie illegally. You are so fixated with pirating that that you are not completely focusing on efforts to make your wife's movie available to new mediums in the U.S. and around the world.
In fact you are so one sided you fail to explore the possibility that viral distribution might help you. Some indie directors are in fact trying to get their movie to spread via BitTorrent and other mediums to drive sales and gain more awareness. Wihtout the internet where would Trey Parker and Matt Stone be?
Either way, saying someone is pirating your movie as an excuse to burn down the internet is short sighted.