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Funding To Edit 200 Hours Of Pirate Bay Documentary Footage Raised In Just Three Days
from the but-pirates-want-everything-for-free!!!! dept
A bunch of folks have been sending over the news that filmmaker Simon Klose was attempting to raise $25,000 in order to hire a professional editor to edit down over 200 hours of footage Simon had filmed of The Pirate Bay's founders over the period of the last couple of years. In his intro pitch, he pointed out that some thought it was strange that he was making a movie about an organization that many in the movie industry hated. But, Simon, of course, points out that such a response is silly. The industry and the market have changed, and there are new avenues to raising funds -- such as directly via a platform like Kickstarter. What's really impressive though is that it only took three days to raise the funds, and there are still over three more weeks to go, and the amount raised keeps going up.
In an interview about the fundraising process, Klose points out that it's not at all surprising that people who support things like The Pirate Bay would support his film, because he was offering them something they actually wanted to support:
In an interview about the fundraising process, Klose points out that it's not at all surprising that people who support things like The Pirate Bay would support his film, because he was offering them something they actually wanted to support:
I think it's natural that you support stuff you believe in. The people who support our movie obviously don't believe in the services that the movie and record industries are offering them. To me it's much more ironic that the corporations are claiming that the system used to be just and beneficial to artists before the internet came around. It never was.And, of course, Klose fully intends to release the movie via The Pirate Bay (as well as by DVD). When asked about how he feels about people file sharing his movie, he notes:
Filesharing is great marketing, I don't mind people marketing my work.
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and keeps growing....
$32,036 PLEDGED OF $25,000 GOAL
26 DAYS TO GO
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Of course
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BUT, if initiatives like Kickstarter catch on, and the old industry is put in check, people from all sorts of different backgrounds will take part.
Almost sounds too good to be true.
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Free marketing...
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"Filesharing is great marketing, I don't mind people marketing my work. "
Well now it looks like this guy recognizes that the filesharers are doing some of his marketing for him and getting a copy of the movie in return...
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I'll pirate then sponser..
Can't easily find other examples of his work so not willing to sponsor yet.
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http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4284794/Sweet_Memories_Garden_Centre
A bit Swedish though.
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Those people asked for 20K and got 200K, or something like that.
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Wow! A film guy who actually understands? Isn't that one of the signs of the coming apocalypse? Hold on, I gotta go check my survival bunker!
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