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- stevejobs, on 01/06/2008, -4/+166You mean '...Pay Well'.
- Shogi, on 01/06/2008, -5/+97They're pirates, you think they sat through English class past "R"?
- t2t2, on 01/06/2008, -2/+82"Yarr me matey, take some booty!"
- ja1217, on 01/06/2008, -1/+55A boats a boat, but the mystery box could be anything. It could even be a boat!
- blix797, on 01/06/2008, -2/+50One of the pirating guidelines I follow: "Support the good stuff."
- brwright, on 01/06/2008, -4/+41$5000/150000 downloads...that's less than $.03 per download.
- thejitters, on 01/06/2008, -0/+34This is slightly off-topic, but I keep seeing it and it's untrue:
"Take the Radiohead release for example, you could get the album virtually for free, but you still had to pay the credit card company nearly $1. This is probably why most people decided to pirate the album, instead of getting it for “free”."
If you decided to download it for free, you don't get any kind of credit card service charge. You aren't even asked for a credit card. (I wasn't.) This isn't the reason the Radiohead release was pirated. - allyant, on 01/06/2008, -1/+30Donate and find out! It's a surprise!
- LeafInTheWind, on 01/06/2008, -0/+19what was the secret prize offer you got when you donated $15? If its good I might donate too
- inactive, on 01/06/2008, -3/+21I'm downloading the movie now, at a rate of 400kbs. o.o
- chugger1992, on 01/06/2008, -2/+19I'm only getting 290, stop hogging it! :(
- jiveturkeyblues, on 01/06/2008, -2/+18who else would be interested in supporting the film?
- Goobernutz, on 01/06/2008, -4/+17wow! $5000. i bet the camera crew, actors, production team, producers, writers, catering crew and everyone else is going to retire. heck, they should make a 2nd crappy movie and rake in ANOTHER 5k. lamborghini monster trucks and diamond capped teeth for everyone!
- ECas123, on 01/06/2008, -4/+16What do you expect? Pirates save up so much money with porn, software, music, and movies this isn't very surprising.
- heartless_, on 01/06/2008, -8/+20Too bad there isn't any proof that pirates are actually the ones donating :/
- Mononuclear, on 01/06/2008, -2/+12why do you keep spamming bofads.com in articles?
- joegibes, on 01/06/2008, -1/+11http://www.getitwriteonline.com/archive/081301.htm
- l2OI3, on 01/06/2008, -4/+14$0/16270... that's $0 per download. 16270 is the number of peers and seeders on one download for I Am Legend, a movie that has been on torrent sites since it came out 3 weeks ago.
My point? $.03 is better than $0 - inactive, on 01/06/2008, -0/+10If I Am Legend was offered for free and they asked for doantions, it would have made MUCH less than it currently is making at the box office.
- CloseTheCode, on 01/06/2008, -6/+16I think distributable media needs a new business model. This is a great example of how unconventional thinking CAN work.
- aaabatteries, on 01/06/2008, -0/+8beat that, ninjas!
- Zero2aHero, on 01/06/2008, -0/+8Your point is lost dude.
If I Am Legend was offered for free, and they asked for kind donations... they would have gotten a ton of money. The title of this made it sound like a huge amount of money was raised. $5000 sucks for having gotten 150,000+ downloads... If you assume (which would be wrong), that the $5000 was raised by 5000 people donating $1, then that would be 3% of the people who downloaded it made a donation. That percentage in itself is low, and we know that users were donating more than that so... the percentage of people who donated was less than 3%.
We know when Saul Williams/Trent Reznor released their new album they said they had 18% of the people pay... that number is pretty damn low as well... let alone less than 3%. - fkr3, on 01/06/2008, -4/+12There's not much booty to take. They made $5000 from 150,000 downloaders? On average they paid just over 3 cents for the movie. Over 90% donated $15 or more that means only a few hundred people actually bothered paying anything at all, out of 150,000.
Typical torrentfreak spam... validate kids for diggs and sit back watching the ad impressions grow. - CraigCarlyle, on 01/06/2008, -4/+11I'm a pirate and I donated $15 today after I finished watching Part II.
- N256, on 01/06/2008, -0/+7I see we have a new definition for piracy.
- lovestospooge, on 01/06/2008, -1/+6BitTorrent = distributed bandwidth
- Makaveli604, on 01/06/2008, -2/+7I would be OK with it if the article was funny.
- Fawkes, on 01/06/2008, -0/+5uhh, all things considered; I think Jessica Simpson had a better ratio...
- inactive, on 01/06/2008, -1/+6Give me a fucing break if you think that this would translate to a regular movie not trying to send a message. The ONLY reason why some people (and it is not that many) are paying, and that they are paying as much as they are is that they pathetically think that they are sticking it to the man by doing so. But if they released, say, the new Rambo movie quietly for free, and asked people to pay...the numbers would be MUCH lower than what the movie will do at hte box office. Like 1% as much.
- inactive, on 01/06/2008, -2/+7How can they call this a success when they have made just $5000, and they say that most people are donating the $15 to see what the surprise gift is. That means that about 400 people out of 150,000 have paid anything...most to see what else they can get for free.
In other words, take away this free gift, and the amount they made is much less than $5000. Not counting their costs.
And producer Jamie King is as delusional as the worst Ron Paulian..."Jamie King, producer of the film gives the following explanation on his blog: “Over 90% of people donating are deciding to go over the artificial $15 threshold we set. But I don’t think people literally ‘want that gift’; I think they want an excuse to be generous!”" No, Jamie..they are not just looking for an excuse to give you money. - whathappened, on 01/06/2008, -0/+4http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3636669624 ...
- inactive, on 01/06/2008, -7/+11haha pay good?
150,000 downloads
5,000 dollars
thats a grand total of... .033333333 cents a person!
Now if they charged online a dollar to see it, that'd be 150,000 dollars!
Aparently giving somthing away doesnt pay off!
Watch as this gets burried because diggers cant face the facts... - barroni, on 01/06/2008, -1/+5i gave up my 5 pieces of silver
- inactive, on 01/06/2008, -1/+5Well, I'm sure as hell not dropping thirty dollars on one DVD. Whether I pirate film X or not, they're not getting my money until they offer it for a more reasonable price.
- BlueTunicLink, on 01/06/2008, -0/+3I'll be the only guy on the block with a boat!
- inactive, on 01/06/2008, -0/+3Must be a matter of personal taste. Me? I'm sick of the strike too.
- jizzlies, on 01/06/2008, -5/+8Poor pirates!
- actorboy, on 01/06/2008, -2/+5Cheap *****, aren't you?
- DiggMasterJ, on 01/06/2008, -0/+3Yar, nothing we do is good.
- fkr3, on 01/06/2008, -1/+4No it's not. Illegal immigrants are making more money than this chump.
- DaDrake, on 01/06/2008, -2/+5Yet you will still illegally download their material? So you don't like their prices, you take their goods anyways without paying.
The world is going to hell =p - fkr3, on 01/06/2008, -4/+7That's not the problem it's just another excuse.
The whole "make money another way as long as we don't have to give you any" is not your call to make and frankly just sounds childish. - Tweekster, on 01/06/2008, -0/+2If you dont get the history of "steal this book" you will find this story interesting, if you learn the history of that book and why it was called such, you will quickly understand why the naming series of books, dvds, and cds that have followed are by a bunch of retards.
While you are at it, go learn about "smoke a book week" too. equally interesting part of the same movement.
To simplify, Steal this book was not about free access to info, but a combo of "i dont give a ***** whatsoever and all proceeds will be literally spent on massive quantities of LSD and weed" and publishing rights to that book involving abbie hoffman, a co author, and less importantly penguin publishing (if i recall correctly)
stil this ______ just means you are a useless tool that couldnt bother to come up with anything original. - inactive, on 01/07/2008, -0/+2You're a liar. Again - if you chose to pay nothing, as most people did, then you didn't have to supply a credit card.
You probably entered 0.01 or something you ***** idiot. - actorboy, on 01/06/2008, -1/+3Anyone else notice that whenever you can smell neck-deep ***** coming off the headline, Ernesto's name is always on the other side of the click?
- SeethisPass, on 01/06/2008, -0/+2 As the son of a full time musician and writer I can tell you that, at best the artists and the writers share for creating and performing music is tiny to nothing under the old system. That system is being replaced by people taking control of their own production and distribution. Under the recording and distribution system of the past You must make many many other people rich before you get anything at all. A recording contract is really just a high interest loan.The artist or writer bears all costs and only gets some low single digit percentage as his possible return. That return is usually eaten up by the interest rate on the "recording contract" and even that small return is much delayed.
Under the system that is being replaced the musician has little to no chance.to get paid for his creations.
Some very well known artists never get anything.
There was a periodical in Miami some years ago that spent an entire edition interviewing bands and musicians with hit records to their credit. They were all asked the same question " What did you do with the money?"
Almost universally the answer they got was " what money?" One multi hit 1980's group, KC and the Sunshine Band, had one member ( KC) who paid down on a house, after having a string of 4 or 5 hits.
That turned out to be the big haul. The sooner the greedy 'old guard' dies out the better it will be for musicians and writers. - tehxen3, on 01/06/2008, -0/+2$5000 for 150,000 downloads is good? Poor pirates...
- Jerky1312, on 01/06/2008, -0/+2These guys get $5,000 donated and they are ecstatic about it, yet Trent Reznor and Saul Williams get $140,000 and they are disheartened about it.
- JudgeMonkey, on 01/06/2008, -0/+2Going? We've been there for far longer than you've been alive.
- inactive, on 01/06/2008, -2/+4Not to mention the "surprise gifts" they have to give out to people. These people lost a LOT of money.
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