Rantings of a New Yorker

Over at Releaselog, there’s a blurb about the movie, Man From Earth.  The producer sent along a nice little email about how thankful he was that piracy, in particular bitorrent, was raising awareness and sales of the movie.

Our independent movie had next to no advertising budget and very little going for it until somebody ripped one of the DVD screeners and put the movie online for all to download. After that happened, people were watching it and started posting mostly all positive reviews on IMDb, Amazon and other places. Most of the feedback from everyone who has downloaded “The Man From Earth” has been overwhelmingly positive. People like our movie and are talking about it, all thanks to piracy on the net!

With guys like this and musicians, like Radiohead giving away their album for a pay-what-you-want fee, people are finally starting to get it.  Piracy isn’t all that bad.  Word of mouth is good.  If you make something good, people will see it, and, most likely, spend the cash on such worthy endeavors.