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Bjoern
March 5th, 2010, 07:28
Hollywood often complains about the billions of dollars allegedly lost due to piracy. Indie film makers, on the other hand, tend to welcome the free buzz generated when their film is pirated. The makers of Ink belong to this latter group, and are thanking the hundreds and thousands of people who downloaded their movie on BitTorrent.

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In this short time span it was downloaded by more than 400,000 people on BitTorrent alone, earning it a spot in TorrentFreak’s chart of top 10 most pirated movies this week.
For most Hollywood bosses this is usually a trigger to start complaining about lost revenue, but the makers of Ink are welcoming their new pirate audience.
In an email to the followers of their newsletter, Jamin and Kiowa Winans say that they have “embraced the piracy” and are “just happy Ink is getting unprecedented exposure.” Thanks to the pirated copy their movie jumped to 16th place on IMDb’s movie meter, and according to the makers this increased popularity also boosted DVD and Blu-ray sales.


http://torrentfreak.com/indie-movie-explodes-on-bittorrent-makers-bless-piracy-091110/


For once, piracy actually *helped*. Wow.

cheezyflier
March 5th, 2010, 09:20
For once, piracy actually *helped*. Wow.

actually, it's far from being the first time, and is a somewhat common occorence. but still, good for them! :applause:

Dain Arns
March 5th, 2010, 10:05
Ink is a good film.
Creative, artful, very trippy at times (in a good way), and a great story overall.
It's unfortunate some people choose theft over supporting the filmmakers financially denying them, in effect in my opinion, the opportunities to make more films.
Support the makers by buying the DVD if you liked the film, I say.
Hollywood is in dire need of creativity like this.


And for US viewers, it has been available for free on Hulu for months now:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/116313/ink