Coming Soon: Pirate TV Show
Written by Ernesto on June 29, 2008Jesse Alexander, the executive producer of the popular TV-shows ‘Heroes’ and ‘Lost’ and Matt Mason, author of ‘The Pirate’s Dilemma’, are working on a new TV-show about piracy. The show will be based on Matt’s book, and will show how important pirates are for today’s society.
Matt recently told us that he has been working on turning the book into a TV show with Jesse Alexander, the Executive Producer of the popular TV-shows Heroes and Lost. “It all happened a few months back when I was in LA talking to Disney, Matt told TorrentFreak, adding “We are trying to get this made into a 13-part TV show.”
The upcoming show aims to educate people about the history of piracy, and how it shapes our future. Pirates are innovators, they signal market problems and lead the way to new business models. Nevertheless, they are often tagged as thieves. In many cases, piracy is helping old businesses to innovate, and it helps to create new legitimate market spaces.
Here’s a teaser.
You can find Matt’s articles on TorrentFreak here. Also, his book “The Pirate’s Dilemma” is now available as a free download, if you don’t want to pirate a copy.
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Finally, some real positive media for file sharing.
I remember seeing the video of the presentation he did to all the big companies, was fantastic, very well written and presented.
Will look out for the tv show!!
Fighting against file sharing is waste of time. Someone will always be smarter than mpaa.
I find it hard to believe that this will ever get to TV whilst presenting anything like a positive interpretation of internet piracy.
Surely, at best, it will not comment on what the uninformed consider to be the ‘moral’ aspects of it, and just focus on other areas instead, allowing joe bloggs to continue in his assumptions, imagining that they have been ratified by his watching of this new series.
>Fighting against file sharing is
>waste of time. Someone will always
>be smarter than mpaa.
Fighting against free information exchange (= file sharing) is a waste of time because its fighting against human nature.
Violently supressing free communication and information exchange between people because free information flow harms someones business is pure nazi censorship.
The best example is the last story of the portugese file sharer who got time just to “set an example”, i.e. “to teach the sheep a lesson”. So the copyright goverment fascists see us as sheep which they are allowed to violently “educate” to stop communicating openly. FUCK NAZI CENSORS. No way I’m gonna obey a nazi law and refuse to share a file with a fellow internet user just help maintain unnatural artificial scarcity to help someone elses business thrive. FUCK THEM.
wow half the info in that video sounds to amazing to be true.
Should be a kool program to watch!
sweet deal, some positive PR for the masses that just don’t understand the pirate culture! I am also pleasantly surprised it’s Jesse Alexander that’s helping him do this :D
Great trailer.
Sweet, I can hardly wait. Should make for good viewing!
JT
http://www.Ultimate-Anonymity.com
If you can, i’d recommend buyin a copy of his book. Its an inspiring read. Its about time someone with bit of power made a film to dispel pirating myths and keep it entertaining.
I made a short film on a similar issues this year. Check it out here:
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=6991626028224913881&q=sharingmusic&ei=s45nSLrHKI-AjQLryMjrDQ&hl=en
“We will produce this picture, but will not allow it to be pirated.” -MPAA
Can you see the irony? … and you know it will happen.
LOL, it will probaly suck! Pirates are the scum of the earth and should be k1lled.
#12 you must be confused with trolls, like yourself. :P
biggest problem is that governments are allowing themselves to be dictated to by private companies. the individual counts for nothing. the good that file sharing does counts for nothing. governments should remember that they are there for everyone, not just for those with the biggest wallets. this series will never be allowed to be broadcast, unless it is pirated, of course! hee hee
What channel is this coming on?
And how long until this guy, TPB, and the The League of Noble Peers get together to make a full-length movie to hit the theaters?
“I remember seeing the video of the presentation he did to all the big companies, was fantastic, very well written and presented.”
Can I get a link?
Everyone should get behind this production. Great work.
They should get a major studio to fund it. Make the whole movie, leak it on the net, then somehow back out at the last minute. Screwing over the movie studio while all the pirates get to watch and distribute it!
That accent is so awful. I don’t like to listen to a brit speaking like that for more than a few seconds, I hate the accent.
@18 you have got everything right except for “backing out” - you see, leaking it on the net is a good thing for them, and it does not screw over the movie studio at all - at least not if they get patronized in some way, and if their distribution method and method of creating the movie is cost-effective
wow looks great. finally some positive press
No way in hell this will hit network tv , Big Business will never let the truth be told to the masses
I hope this series gets made
I hope this gets on network T.V.
I hope someone uploads the series
BECAUSE I AM GOING TO DOWNLOAD IT AND SEED IT!!!
SO F.U.C.K. YOU MPAA,RIAA AND ANY OTHER A.A. THATS OUT THERE YOU H.O.M.O.`S CAN SUCK MY W.A.N.G.!!!!!
if you have to ask why piracy isn’t immoral, then you aren’t ready to know.
All this info here is totally true.Without piracy,this country,actually WORLD,would be so boring.It is human nature to share,and no matter what, it is gonna happen.They can fight it all they want but when you have a friend that asks you “hey can you burn me that dvd(or cd),what are you gonna say?”No bro its illegal”.Pfft good luck finding friends.
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