Hollywood Studios Fuming Over Indie Studio Deal With BitTorrent 187
silentbrad sends this quote from TheWrap:
"'It's a deal with the devil,' one studio executive [said]. 'Cinedigm is being used as their pawn.' Cinedigm announced this weekend that it would offer the first seven minutes of the Emily Blunt-Colin Firth indie Arthur Newman exclusively to BitTorrent users, which number up to 170 million people.... Hollywood studios have spent years and many millions of dollars to protect their intellectual property and worry that by teaming up with BitTorrent, Cinedigm has embraced a company that imperils the financial underpinnings of the film business and should be kept at arm's length. 'It's great for BitTorrent and disingenuous of Cinedigm,' said the executive. 'The fact of the matter is BitTorrent is in it for themselves, they're not in it for the health of the industry.' Other executives including at Warner Brothers and Sony echoed those comments, fretting that Cinedigm had unwittingly opened a Pandora's box in a bid to get attention for its low-budget release. ... 'Blaming BitTorrent for piracy is like blaming a freeway for drunk drivers, ' Jill Calcaterra, Cinedigm's chief marketing officer said. 'How people use it can be positive for the industry or it can hurt the industry. We want it help us make this indie film successful.' ... 'We'll be working with all of [the studios] one day,' [Matt Mason, BitTorrent's vice president of marketing] said. 'It's really up to them how quickly they come to the table and realize we're not the villain, we're the heroes.'"
Obligatory Nelson... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:and WHO are the movie studios in it for, us? (Score:5, Funny)
That's simply because gutless worms have no intestines.
Re:I don't get it (Score:4, Funny)
> I can't imagine why they'd use BitTorrent, aside from the fact that BitTorrent gets
> you a few headlines.
"Hmm...this one says `7 minutes`...and this one says `116 minutes`....where to click...."
Re:and WHO are the movie studios in it for, us? (Score:5, Funny)
I'm astonished that the studio executives own intestines didn't spring forth and strangle the man for such blatant hypocrisy. I'm astonished that politicians aren't on television right now saying "Yeah, that's some pot/kettle 'black' shit right there. I'm astonished any reporter he was talking to didn't kick him in the balls. I mean, I probably would have done all those things. Simultaneously in fact.
That's a television show, all to itself, if you can actually pull it off without hurting yourself. I'd DVR that.... Or maybe D/L the torrent if I forgot. ...Shit, even if you do get hurt, the audience would be mesmerized...
MES-MER-IZED!
Re:I'd support Cindigm even if its a crappy movie (Score:4, Funny)
someone should stick the 7 minute clip at the start of a pirated copy of the latest hollywood flick and then spread that throughout the torrent world... that would help with marketing for the indie film and really piss the mpaa off... two birds, one stone :)
Re:and WHO are the movie studios in it for, us? (Score:5, Funny)
(also, I used a SAG actor in my last film. I paid him in korean barbeque)
Re:Bittorrent != piracy (Score:5, Funny)
that's like equating tors silkroad with drug purchasing. there is literally tens of other things on there.