You think downloading pirated movies for free is fine? Well I hope you don't plan to make any money making movies.
We're way under water on Quality of Life still. It's a huge money losing effort sadly.
And it looks like torrents have killed our international chances as well.
Just today, we got this note from a prospective wholesaler in one of the biggest countries in Europe:
Well regarding dvd sales, I must say that the graff dvd market has gone totally down the last months, it has become impossible to sell more than 50-100 copies of a dvd, this is due to massive bootlegging. Everybody downloads from the net. There's even a website with all the brand new graffiti videos, there are even books & mags...
That's the sad truth, it will kill creativity.
That's why most people here have already seen or downloaded Quality of Life. For these reasons I'm not really interested in distributing dvd's anymore. I'm sure you understand since you must probably face the same problem everywhere worldwide.
What's that you hear?
The sound of DIY filmmaking croaking.
Unlike music creators, we make our (meager) money from sales of recordings, not live performances. Once the market for recordings (DVDs) dries up, we can't pay back investors. If we can't pay back investors, we cannot make movies with better production values and we cannot afford to even make them in the first place. That means: YouTube is the new indie filmmaking and true quality feature films from DIY voices will start to dry up.
So can one of the virulently pro-pirating advocates please tell me how pirates help indie filmmakers?
And if you support DIY filmmakers, you should be buying or renting your DVDs, not pirating.
Yes. DIY will continue, but we will have to find other avenues. The web is only one way. Drop me a line and we'll talk. I haven't made any hard profit either but I believe I can in other ways.
-Nate
Posted by: nathyn masters | July 09, 2008 at 11:24 AM