Wired (and WELL) co-founder (and all around writer/blogger/lecturer/savant) Kevin Kelly has written an interesting blog “How to Thrive Among Pirates” wherein he extrapolates lessons Western film producers could learn from the piracy-ridden filmmaking cultures of China, Nigeria, and India. The short summary, for those unfamiliar with China/Nollywood/Bollywood filmmaking, is that there is a thriving low […]
Lessons from Pirates? Not Quite.
April 8th, 2010 · 5 Comments
Tags: filmmaking · media ramblings
The Piracy Battle – Two VERY different approaches
February 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment
I found it interesting that on the same day that American producers were again renewing the call to battle piracy (although, unsurprisingly not mentioning the latest US legal judgement that a pirated download does not constitute a “lost sale” for calculation of damages… something I’ve long argued the MPAA and RIAA are using to cloak […]
Tags: A series of tubes · electronic entertainment · filmmaking · media ramblings
Hey, Kids – Anti-Piracy Propaganda!
August 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
Wired’s Threat Level blog has a great write up about a non-profit comic distributed to 50,000 US students which reads suspiciously like RIAA propaganda about file sharing. The goals may be admirable: “The purpose is basically to educate kids — middle school and high school-aged about how the justice system operates and about what really […]
Tags: copyright reform · entertainment law · funnybooks · media ramblings