However, it highlights an important part of the problem in that particular industry today – it’s not the artists that are worried so much about piracy; it’s the “surrounding industry”, those who make (a lot of) money from films and music and whatnot without actually having much of a hand in creating the works.

While we’ve takens several steps to *postpone* piracy, we are fully aware that it’s a matter of time until someone cracks our product. And when that happens, we’ll know we’ve just become really important.[/quote]
Just like the head of Nero said, I’m glad they copy our program instead of a competing company’s product, it just show’s that we make the best product.

I download lots of movies and tv shows. If they turn out to be good, I buy the dvd. If they are crap then oh well…

Good movies etc.. are generally made by people who are in it for the love of the art form, if they get money thats a bonus. If they have this attitude and make stuff I enjoy I will open my wallet. If some penny pinching tight wad makes a movie as a money making exercise then they ain’t getting no love here.

+1 to the real artists that want their stuff seen/heard.

While we’ve takens several steps to *postpone* piracy, we are fully aware that it’s a matter of time until someone cracks our product. And when that happens, we’ll know we’ve just become really important.

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Good article!

What a pity it’s got nothing to do with him and his opinion is worthless.
What do the caterers think ?

OTOH we earn quite well too :-D

Last weekend, a CAM version of the Norwegian movie “Lange Flate Ballær II” leaked onto several BitTorrent sites. Quite surprisingly, the producer doesn’t hold a grudge against the person who leaked the film. Instead, he thinks it’s an honor th…

Well, you can pay full price in a first run theatre. You can pay less than half price at a second-run theatre. You can pay a third of the price and rent it on DVD or download it legally. You can borrow the DVD from the library or a friend that bought it. You can watch it on a cable movie channel for almost-free. You can wait until it’s on network television and not pay a cent.

That’s lots of options, none of which is overly expensive and all of which give revenue to the producers and encourage them to make more movies! I for one don’t think my life would be better without hollywood movies – there have been some great ones in the past year that I’ve been glad to rent and share the 5 bucks with a few friends…

Here’s an alternative… big seats, smoking theatres, beer served out front, walmart-priced snacks, and $3-5 a ticket. Do that, and I’ll be back at the cinema 4+ times a month. At the moment, its 1-2 times a year.

Well done to this director… now if we can find and attach some English subs for the movie, he might just increase his film’s viewership 50-fold, out of solidarity. :)[/quote]

Spot on. I agree with you there!

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btw, down with hollywood.

You can’t compare a cheap-ass movie shot with unknown actors on handheld cameras to hollywood films when it comes to the impact of illegal filesharing, because the point of the movie’s release is so different. Same in the record industry – Radiohead averaged less than a dollar for every copy of their album that was dL’ed from their site – letting the public decide if they want to pay for something they take just doesn’t work; imagine if you ran a grocery store that worked on this principle…

I’m with 19 as well. Make it worth my while and I’d go as well. Serve me decently priced food, a little booze and have some chairs I can lean back in like a la-z-boy.

As it is in this state I can’t even go to the fuckin’ bar and have a smoke. Hurra for the US.

all that would change if they consider that thier movie *could* get an award,and start sending out “for your consideration” copies

Here’s an alternative… big seats, smoking theatres, beer served out front, walmart-priced snacks, and $3-5 a ticket. Do that, and I’ll be back at the cinema 4+ times a month. At the moment, its 1-2 times a year.

Well done to this director… now if we can find and attach some English subs for the movie, he might just increase his film’s viewership 50-fold, out of solidarity. :)

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say,how hard is it to migrate into ur country ?

Last weekend, a CAM version of the Norwegian movie “Lange Flate Ballær II” leaked onto several BitTorrent sites. Quite surprisingly, the producer doesn’t hold a grudge against the person who leaked the film. Instead, he thinks it’s an honor th…

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Good article!

So what? What doesn’t suck in your oh-so-educated opinion? Probably some Hollywood-style vomit like H.P., Spiderman, Batman, Bourne and whatnot?

In fact any man of good taste would never buy 99% of modern shit that comes from US of A. As for me, I wouldn’t watch it even if they gave DVDs away for free. Yeah, so much for copyright.

Mr. Zwart at least deserves some credit for being in his right mind.

Instead of bawling his eyes and whining that BitTorrent cost his movie hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue, he’s simply honoured that people are interested enough to cam it and torrent it?

Ubelievable. It’s almost like this lunatic actually CARES about having his work seen, rather than singlemindendly lusting after a sum of money so of large it could blot out the Sun. My God… It’s like he isn’t a greedy, parasitic douchebag at all.

This guy clearly did *not* get the IFPI’s memo.[/quote]

Indeed, I shutter to think what would happen if others did this..

Instead of bawling his eyes and whining that BitTorrent cost his movie hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue, he’s simply honoured that people are interested enough to cam it and torrent it?

Ubelievable. It’s almost like this lunatic actually CARES about having his work seen, rather than singlemindendly lusting after a sum of money so of large it could blot out the Sun. My God… It’s like he isn’t a greedy, parasitic douchebag at all.

This guy clearly did *not* get the IFPI’s memo.

You earned some extra attention from Holland now !