Indie Movie Ink Explodes on BT – Makers Embrace It
The studio’s just like the music recording industry have long held all distribution channels with an iron fist, unfortunately for them with the advent of bit torrent technology, that’s no longer true, and already its benefiting smaller independent film makers who would have had to struggle to get eyeballs to view the flicks just a few years ago.
Hollywood often complains about the billions of dollars allegedly lost due to piracy. Indie film makers, on the other hand, tend to welcome the free buzz generated when their film is pirated. The makers of Ink belong to this latter group, and are thanking the hundreds and thousands of people who downloaded their movie on BitTorrent.
Written and directed by Jamin Winans, Ink is the story of a brutal mercenary who appears in the dreamscape of a comatose 8 year old called Emma. Like virtually every movie nowadays, the film ended up being ripped and put on BitTorrent just a few days ago.
In an email to the followers of their newsletter, Jamin and Kiowa Winans say that they have “embraced the piracy” and are “just happy Ink is getting unprecedented exposure.” Thanks to the pirated copy their movie jumped to 16th place on IMDb’s movie meter, and according to the makers this increased popularity also boosted DVD and Blu-ray sales.
Who needs a hefty marketing budget to promote a movie (and merchandise) when they have BitTorrent? Sent out a few hours ago, here’s the m ailing in full…
Read the entire article and commentary on Torrent Freak
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Ah but they also say they are *not* excited by people *not* paying to watch it. How about not just lifting the story from TF and researchi…….oh wait copying and sharing are cool ok duh! (asterisks added)
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As for them not being too excited by people not paying for it, I believe that's also covered in the TF article that we linked to:
Ink got ripped off. Someone bit torrented the movie (we knew this would happen)
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we’ve embraced the piracy and are just happy Ink is getting unprecedented exposure.
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