Us in the porn biz are suffering tremendously from piracy and nobody
is doing a thing, and the large companies like Visa, MasterCard and
Google are even helping them. But it's no different for the
independent moviemaker industry. The other day I finally wanted to
watch The Blair Witch Project which I never saw, so I took my credit
card and my iPad and tried to find a site through Google where I
could pay using my credit card and then watch the movie, but all I
got to see on Google were torrent and other piracy sites. Even when
you're honest and want to pay to watch a movie, Google sends you to
the pirates.
There's tons of stories on Indy filmmaker sites about how piracy is
destroying this industry. There's a famous story of a female producer
who put all her private and borrowed money in a production, and when
it was finally released, it was on Pirate Bay the next day already,
she hardly sold any copies herself and she want bankrupt.
Some people tried the donate system; upload your movie to Pirate Bay
yourself and inside the credits you ask people to donate something to
you. They got tons of downloads and hardly any donations, one got
$1000 donations for a $10.000 production.
But I don't consider this a pure piracy problem, but rather a problem
of mankind in general, that stinking rotting 90% of humans who are
greedy, lazy, and want everything for free. Visa, MasterCard and
Google consists of greedy scum as well. Google has been taking over
everything on the internet, and they hardly pay any taxes, even
though it's an American company, on paper they are based in countries
with very low taxes.
I'm dragging a few people into court for violating my copyright as we
speak by the way. I have good expectations from this because the
evidence I have is very strong and these people continue showing me
their middle finger. Well they can have it then.
Rieni
At 17-5-2013 17:38, Edward Martin III wrote:
>"What I hate most about pirates is when they go preach their "everything
>should be for free" bullshit."
>
>Riiiight there with you, man!
>
>I had a fellow at a show recently try to convince me that people torrenting
>movies was a good thing, as long as they credited the makers of the movies
>(and specifically small filmmakers). I tried to explain to him that, as
>one of those small filmmakers, every single DVD or stream I sell I counts
>as income, so, no, "crediting me" is not enough. This is how I make my
>living. I tried to be polite about it, but damn. What a jerk. After he
>left, one of my partners came over and said "I'm glad you were talking to
>him. You're a lot nicer. I would have just been punching him a lot until
>he fell down and then punched him some more."
>
>So, right there with you on that one, Rieni!
>
>Cheers,
>
>Edward
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