I watched _John Dies At The End_ and I thought it was pretty freakin’ awesome; it’s directed by Don Coscarelli (who did the _Phantasm_ movies, which (to me) makes him a legend). In short: the man has my $10.

I thought the “don’t pirate” video was clever and also hilarious — for those of you without a sense of humor, yes, it’s intended to be funny — and also a textbook example of how a savvy independent film-maker can “remind” the pirate fans to support the film.

Making the film available online for a reasonable price before its theatrical distribution is really cool — maybe it’s not perfect because it’s not available everywhere, but it’s definitely a step in the right direction.

I see a lot of people complaining. I guess no matter what you do, ya can’t please everyone. But it seems to me like the people behind _John Dies At The End_ are actively attempting to do things in a manner that many downloaders consider “good” and “fair”. And I hope that more content creators follow their example.

Mr P

Example;
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0281686/

Actually I would think hollywood has plenty of cash….

“With official results in, overall 2012 domestic box office came in at a record $10.83 billion. That’s up six-and-a-half percent from last year and two percent from 2009, which previously held the record with $10.596 billion.

More importantly, there were approximately 1.36 billion tickets sold, which is higher than 2011 (1.28 billion) and 2010 (1.34 billion). While it isn’t anywhere near the 2002 high of 1.58 billion, it still confirms that, even with the ever-increasing options for home entertainment, people will head out to movie theaters if the product is appealing enough.”

Taken from here;
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3600&p=.htm

Poses the question… is the anti-piracy movement having success or are people just simply going to the movies more?

Such big numbers make it difficult to estimate the true impact of piracy on box office margins, but I seriously doubt, it [piracy] has any significant effect at all, there are currently over 25,000 films in production at the feet of Hollywood studios.

I don’t think it makes good business sense to invest into so much product if piracy was such a serious threat to the returns, as they are saying.

So someone is lying.

The law? The law is but a mere lost lamb, in this savage capitalist playing field, we have created.

If something interested me and I think it’s a good idea, I’m going to say so, and fuck you.

Get a couple of mates round and split it, or trick them into buying the pizza/ bringing the booze.

“Not available in your region”

Gee. This is in no way self defeating. /Rollseyes