This! This is how you kill piracy. Please vengeful Gods of Ancient Media look kindly upon this woman for she would be your savior.

Wonderful movie though. I’m usually a high budget B-movie junkie, but this had the feeling of a extremely low budget A-movie.

Apple iPad.

I definitely agree with them on one point–releasing movies online at the same time as releasing them on DVD would definitely raise sales. And if you figure that a much larger percentage of online sales would be profit (because you don’t have to make disks or packaging), it would be feasible for production companies to lower the download price and still make a hefty profit!

Of course, they’d probably argue that this would only facilitate piracy, but honestly… how hard is it to copy files off a DVD these days? Not very.

This movie reeks of cheesy lame plot.

About the movie – I didn’t download it yet, but I probably will. And nice to see that the creators support this kind of distribution.

That said… the film is too bad.

Hey reasoned, you brought up an interesting point that I would like to address. It chiefly concerns to fact that, as you stated, file-sharers are often largely responsible for giving previously obscure products viability commercial viability. I wouldn’t even mind going a step further and stating that it’s very likely that file-sharers have single-handedly BROUGHT much obscure consumable media to market.

I suppose what I’m getting at, RM, is why aren’t the MPAA, IFPI, “MAFIAA”, and their cohorts compensating file-sharers for the file-sharers’ marketing and advertisement of those products?

I got so disappointed halfway into the move that I quit watching it.

If only the move had a bigger budget and better actors…

Piracy is a classic double-edged sword. It brings benefit to the obscure, making their products more and more viable in the commercial market through the exposure of free distribution.

Then, just when the creator is poised to finally make a living selling copies of their music/movie/book/game, piracy distributes free copies of everything leaving the creator holding the actual expense of the original production.

While claiming the piracy is actually “free speech”, of course.

COMPLETE BULLSH!T….stop spouting the party line and actually READ the article, if your going to complain about the ‘pirates’ posting unreasoned nonsensical dribble – and you do often – then does’nt that apply to you as well?

or are your ethics arbitrary?

I’m a fag, Please rape my face”

YOUR WISH IS MY COMMAND MASTER!

ROFLMAO :D

Yeah, because you not paying for their movies was just a waaaaay too obvious answer.

“Think of the implications for the future of the Hollywood business model. They profit through control. When they don’t control a movie like INK, they have no way to generate any revenue from that production.”

That would have no implications for the future of Hollywood, given that you are already describing the past and present.

Indie films which make no money are the ones Hollywood already passed on since they won’t make any money. You somehow think that Hollywood is then scared when they turn out to have made the right choice.

All you are telling us is you don’t realise you are stupid and have no idea how anything you are referring to works, nor what many of the words you use mean.

“If this scenario starts to catch-on, indie films will be directly competing with Hollywood schlock on an almost level plying field.”

Yeah, almost level except for the making any money part. You know, like as though this was business venture that employs people, needs investors in order to operate and people can go bankrupt over.

Has the P2P community considered founding some kind of Moron Institute for Movie Production Consulting which could get these ideas out into the not-for-profit marketplace where they can do some good?

You could travel around grade schools and share your invaluable ideas with the kind of movie productions which have no interest in revenue.

Oh yeah, before I forget…
To Reasoned Mind,
Your customers HATE you!
They hated you yesterday, they hate you today, and they will hate you forever. Remember, nothing you do matters. Don’t even bother getting out of bed. Why?
Because your customers HATE you!

All the shitty lighting/contrast effect pissed me off, and i found myself asking – ‘why?’ a lot.

Like… okay… he has to beat on a drum to open the portal…. but why? He has a shit load of other drums, will they not do? Why does no one else have these drums?

Other things pissed me off as well… but after a while i just got bored of picking holes in it and tried to enjoy it – and i did!

The blind guy is a great actor. Dude should be in some bigger films.
I had NO. FREAKING. IDEA. that Ink would turn out to be [spoiler material]! Didn’t see it coming at all, even though all my friends did.

In other words – if you’re going to watch this film, do four things:

1) Assume it was made by some talented film students who, with a better budget and some proper experience (so they stop trying to be edgy with ghay lighting and crappy effects), could do really well.

2) Watch it to the end. It gets better and better.

3) If something doesn’t make sense, just roll with it. It’s probably not going to be explained.

4) Be impressed by the fight scenes. Seriously – shits actually pretty good considering!

Do you mean “ultimately” in a “eventually the sun will die” kind of way ?

Because I’m not real sure what else you are waiting for here. A low budget, painful to watch movie which had no commercial merit, didn’t make any money, then made no more when it was given away for free.
Yeah, why aren’t those license-to-print-cash idiots jumping on that boat.

Anyway, it’s nice to have a fallback community if somehow the 9/11 conspiracy theorists have just gotten too logical for you.

Well okay. Works for cheese samples at the supermarket all the time. It ain’t news.

You know what else is big on bittorrent ? Hentai. How about a story about how the hentai industry has made it big in this alternate media distribution marketplace. You know, a real underdog rags to not-riches-cause-nobodys-paying tale.

Or were we thinking that movie producers get more excited about 400,000 downloading their movie than 300,000 which they had no box office for ? Right.

I mean not hollywood bad.. its just like.. nauseating bad.. the camera switches more times than Transformers.. the graphics are always blinding me with strange lights and weird ass people are running around not making any sense and the special effects seemed paper thin..

I know you have to pay attention.. but I just found the movie unwatchable.

I mean I couldnt even get through the first 15 minutes, and im the type of person that can usualy sit through and entire HORRIBLE movie..

I think its success is great.. I just wish it was on a good movie.