Thursday, March 27, 2008

Now for the Wacky Idea: first run movies on Bit Torrent.

I have the rights to make a movie based on a famous SciFi writer short story who just passed.

After 3 years of rejections from Hollywood, I was thinking that maybe we can fund the movie with donations and grants and release the movie freely (GPL style) over Bit Torrent and BlueRay and then see what it will take to get it played in theaters. I really think it would be so cool and set a whole new model for film production, copyleft movies. Am I a nut job or is this just crazy enough to work?

If you have any thoughts on that please leave a comment.

Or you can mail me at http://www.videotechnology.com/contact.html

Also see my other blog post
copyleft-movies-can-it-be-done

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Update:
South Park To Be Available Online Free and Legal
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/27/175241"

South Park is coming online, free and legal. My brief research has not indicated if it will use DRM, require some silly Windows-only software or be otherwise substandard. According to a Wired blog article, 'Parker and Stone said they were inspired to start the site when they got 'really sick of having to download our own show illegally all the time. So we gave ourselves a legal alternative.'"
In this regard South Park joins fellow Comedy Central notable The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, whose archive was made freely available online late last year.