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Not many shoestring-budget documentary films get seen by
4.86 million people.
It helps that
“Steal this Film” covers the war between Hollywood and a prevailing mode of online video distribution, and that the film’s logo stood in for
the pirate ship on the front page of the world’s favorite torrent site when it launched.
But given that geek-specific content often blazes trails for other genres (examples include digg.com, the blogosphere, or the internet itself– take your pick) it’s not unreasonable to see Steal this Film as a model for documentary distribution. The film’s success hints at a new funding model too. A donation solicitation that filmmakers consider rudimentary (or maybe they said “half-assed”, I don’t remember) managed to net a pretty significant amount of Euro.
(In every conversation I have with documentary makers, reaching tons of people online and having them pay you i...
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Harry Koza in the Globe and Mail quotes Bernard Connelly, the global strategist at Banque AIG in London, who claims that the likelihood of a Great Depression is growing by the day.
Martin Wolf, celebrated columnist of the U.K.-based Financial Times, cites Dr. Nouriel Roubini of the New York University’s Stern School of Business, who, in 12 steps, outlines how the losses of the American financial system will grow to more than $1 trillion - that’s one million times $1 million. Th...
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Post Date: 2008-03-08 11:01:29
So DivX Corporation ’s Stage6 has croaked. The service’s ‘goodbye, cruel word’ note says it was a victim of its own success, but that it proved ‘it’s possible to distribute true high definition video on the Internet’.
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