Its an important issue – if there is no revenue stream for the movie, how is it going to make money, and therefore how is he going to sustain himself as a filmmaker?

I’d have liked to have heard his views on the matter.

I personally love digital distribution, but currently do not pay for any content (usenet). There’s just no place for people like me at the moment to get the stuff we want, how we want it, but be financially responsible also.

Now a request – could you make a movie of “A Maze of Death”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Maze_of_Death

Love that book.

Unfortunately, it’s still challenging for most filmmakers to actually make their money back on a movie (assuming they financed it without the studios) when relying solely on internet distribution. Especially if the budget was more than a few hundred thousand bucks. It can be done, but it’s quite challenging.

Now add in piracy (or free sharing if that sounds better), and the result is a filmmaker makes one movie and they’re done for life. Tens of thousands of filmmakers in the past 15 or so years have made one movie and that’s it. This, IMO, is NOT good for art/culture/filmmaking in the U.S.

“Survival of the fittest”? I don’t think all we want left in this arena is filmmakers who have trust funds to live on and can give everything away for free. We need all walks of life of filmmakers, and we need them to be able to survive financially.

i didn’t say that, someone smarter did, and i know that all ppl who want to be real artists understand this :)
and just to be clear, there are ppl in this world that do go under that surface and do pay for it dearly, and that is the only reason why we are not still in the stone age(from some pov). :)

My last comment would be related to something Oscar Wilde said: ‘A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at’
i live by this part of his statement and i do believe that only and open system is what can save the movie industry as well as many others.

excuse my english if it’s a bit rough.

We need to bring back the thinking of “Lets try anything to see if it works!”

If you are interested in being a part of the film making process, this movie is a must!

the irony

The people’s voices have been carried by professionals within our communities. All of a sudden when the doctors and lawyers are using bit torrent, and the world hasn’t exploded, we all realize we’ve been had over pety things like profit (for a VERY VERY few) while losing fair use user viewing rights to protect their copywrong agenda.

Pirates of the world unite is right. On the high seas in days of old pirates were OFTEN used by different empires (go attack our enemy they’d say is fair game).

As for the ONE poster being a hater (prob corporately paid) it’s too bad you try and use emotion instead of facts. Get everyone riled up over a nothing post.

*and the choir jumps up from their seats and PRAAAAAAAISES the bit torrent technology, sent DOOOOOOOWN to us from the heavens to free us from the shackles of ignorance and greed*

“well I heard a message! It was up from above! On this blessed Interweb it flew in like a dove!”

Hallelujah! :P

The fact is they are experimenting MORE now as the fact is THEY know its only matter of time before them old farts die off and lose control.

Had to bit it on this one eh…..
Must be as he says that NONE of your stuff makes it too top 100?

Tells ya that poster is mpaa OR an has been wannabe artist that should really go find other work.

Cheers!!

I am Tommy Pallotta the guy who made the movie. Thanks for your all of your comments. I will try to check in and answer any direct questions you may have. It seems I need to clarify what my intentions were. I could not sell the movie if I wanted to. I used unlicensed material via BitTorrent so I simple do not have the rights. Because I think filesharing is so great, I wanted to make something to give back to the community to encourage its use and to encourage others to make things specifically for it. I will not release all of my movies this way, but this seemed like the right one and a fun way to participate in something that I find important. Hope that helps. I will try to answer all questions for the next week.

Best
/tp