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With the file-sharing wars in full swing, 2007 saw the movie The Man From Earth being pirated all over the Internet, but its creators didn't fight the movement. Instead, they embraced pirates and thanked them for their attention. More than a decade on its sequel, The Man From Earth: Holocene, is again being shared on The Pirate Bay. But this time its creators put it there themselves.
Source: https://torrentfreak.com/the-man-from-earth-sequel-pirated-on-the-pirate-bay-by-its-creators-180116/
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A decade ago this week, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm, and Carl Lundström were all found guilty of 'assisting in making copyright content available' via their site, The Pirate Bay. Each was sentenced to a year in jail and their fines totaled over $3 million. Now ten years on, the site has a life of its own without those four. It has been the target of a many takedown notices and has even been blocked multiple times.
Ten years ago this week, four men were found guilty and sentenced to prison for running The Pirate Bay. At the time, Peter Sunde said that the site would continue, no matter what. A decade on he has been proven absolutely right and that in itself is utterly remarkable.
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How The Pirate Bay Helped Spotify Become a Success (2018)
The Man from Earth Sequel "Pirated" on The Pirate Bay - By Its Creators (2018)
How The US Pushed Sweden to Take Down The Pirate Bay (2017)
What's a Digital Copy Worth? Not Much, Says Peter Sunde's New Machine (2015)
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Saturday January 20 2018, @04:01AM (5 children)
This is something the movie industry doesn't want you to know about. It puts the lie to the concept of "piracy". Let's call it by it's proper name - file sharing. File sharers don't put a gun to the movie industry's head, and take that industry's means of making money. Piracy is just stupid. File sharing. Not piracy, but file sharing. File sharing has an impact on profits, but that impact has never been studied seriously, and no one can say exactly what that impact is. It could even be that file sharing has only negligible impact on movie profits. Or, that ultimately, file sharing increases all movie profits. Possibly, some movie's profits are damaged, and a lot of others gain from being shared.
The whole point is, Hollyweird is dishonest as all hell, and doesn't want any of us to know the truth. The only possible truth is the narrative they tell us.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @04:34AM (1 child)
He beats with an angelic smile on his face. He rapes with an angelic smile on his face.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @10:24PM
You're just not good with the opposite sex, are you? ^^;
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday January 20 2018, @04:38AM (1 child)
If I recall correctly, someone involved in game of thrones said that file sharing wasn't hurting them at all, in fact it was getting more people watching it. Very quickly afterwards, though, he was 'corrected'.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @06:59PM
one of the positive aspects of an open business model.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by LVDOVICVS on Saturday January 20 2018, @06:45AM
I'd heard that putting their videos on YouTube improved Monty Python's sales. Here's a link that says they went up 23,000%!
https://www.fastcompany.com/1146469/youtube-monty-python-videos-boost-dvd-sales-23000 [fastcompany.com]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday January 20 2018, @04:17AM (6 children)
I watched both of them the day after I subbed this. The first one was pretty good if you can get past the shitty acting from everybody except John Billingsley. The second one just felt like a typical Hollywood cash grab.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday January 20 2018, @04:35AM (3 children)
Hah, that's what got me: very interesting story, shite for acting!
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday January 20 2018, @11:34AM (2 children)
Several of them were guys we've all seen doing at least fair work on the screen before too. I guess it was just bad directing.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Spamalope on Saturday January 20 2018, @02:13PM (1 child)
It felt like they had enough rehearsals to get through it, but not enough to make it feel natural. It was low budget soap opera style.
The writing did a good job of making it interesting, so it worked overall anyhow.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday January 20 2018, @07:11PM
Yeah, the story was interesting enough in the first one to make up for some off-the-mark dialog.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Saturday January 20 2018, @12:18PM (1 child)
And there's no explosions or giant robots, right?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday January 20 2018, @07:10PM
Doesn't necessarily need to be. Sometimes you want giant robots kicking the shit out of each other, sometimes you don't.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @05:24AM
Just got this off of Usenet yesterday
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Saturday January 20 2018, @06:09AM
This shows the importance of knowing whether you're still at the "need exposure" stage before you shift to the "need money" stage [theoatmeal.com].
I'm curious about the contracts that allowed this to happen. I seem to vaguely remember some artists uploading their own work only to get shut down by the publisher that still owns the rights via work made for hire, assignment, or long-term exclusive license.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @12:44PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implied-in-fact_contract [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @04:00PM (1 child)
All I could legally download would be french and spanish movies and who wants to see those!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @05:28PM
That's a privateer dickhead, not a pirate. And even then it depends on who you got your Letter of Marque from.