![]() ![]() I cannot express enough how frustrated I am watching Hollywood slowly but surely follow the same "all defense all the time" path as the music industry when it comes to ignoring downloading as the future (in favor of Blue Ray), going after torrent communities and prosecuting downloaders, and practicing what basically equates to an erred philosophy on human beings' relationship and instincts in regards to sharing information. Yes! This is the kind of forward-thinking the industry needs and props to August for doing it for them. ![]() Because to a very large degree, I am The Man in this case. So I'm watching this first wave of torrents carefully, hoping the people who are downloading The Nines are doing it because they love movies, and not because they want to screw over some mythical The Man. One of the things I hope to do with The Nines – sometime after the writers' strike, when I can call Sony again – is work with them to release a low-res version of all the source material for The Nines, so budding filmmakers can try their hand at cutting (and re-cutting) a real feature. That and a dozen other efforts could make the market competitive, which will be better for everyone.īut where August takes a next step in becoming a unique voice on this subject is with the following statement. Apple's new rental deal with the studios sounds promising. ![]() I'd steer the legal machinery towards stopping the true black market – counterfeit discs and camcorder specials – and spend more time coming up with legitimate, convenient alternatives to the torrents, so that's it's not any more difficult to find and download a movie legally. August goes on to say that he has far less tolerance for viewers who download a film that is openly available to them, be it on DVD or theatrically, but even then, he seems to think that downloading his film is less harmful than buying a bootleg of it on the streets of New York, referring to the latter as "organized crime" and torrent sites as merely "far less noble." Moreover, he says that Hollywood should lay off the downloaders and lay on an innovative solution. ![]()
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