Another Filmmaker Purposely Releases Film Online For Free
from the getting-there dept
Michael Moore made some news by releasing his latest movie for free online, but some brushed aside that idea, since Moore is an activist and his message is more important than the business side of things. But it appears that other popular filmmakers are diving into free internet distribution as well. Wayne Wang, who has directed such well known movies as The Joy Luck Club, Smoke and Maid in Manhattan is releasing his entire latest feature-length film online for free. It's not downloadable, but the entire movie is available at YouTube and embeddable. So grab some popcorn and watch it here:Admittedly, this was an independent production done quickly on something of a whim, and Wang was worried about being able to get it going through normal distribution channels -- but it's yet another experiment to watch, as more movie makers realize that there's more to making successful, money-making movies than getting people to pay for every single viewing.
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depressing, but good
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too long...
If you're going to release it, go all the way and throw a torrent out there.
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Moore is still a capitalist....
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Re: Moore is still a capitalist....
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Re: Moore is still a capitalist....
Huh? Did anyone claim otherwise? Our argument has been that it IS capitalist to give away the content, as it maximizes other aspects of your business. So why would you even bring it up?
My understanding is the movie will only be available for free for a limited time and then people will have to purchase a DVD to watch it. That also explains why it is not downloadable. So much for free.
Huh? Again, you are very confused. The movie IS downloadable via BitTorrent.
Try again.
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Moore is a Glutton
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Re: Moore is a Glutton
That would be a hit since a lot of Americans could relate to the subject matter...lol. I used to see myself that way until I decided to make a change and start shedding the blubber and toning up...much happier now :)
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Holy Cow
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Am I being particularly dense...?
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Is it available anywhere? If people in the USA and Canada can not access it and me over in Germany cannot either, could it be that the vid is only available in Asia?!? :-(
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Who cares what Michael Moore thinks?
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Not in New Zealand
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Re: Not in New Zealand
Here's a forum page:
http://hackpedia.info/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=7705&p=52326
Here, user1 says that he cannot view this video - not available in his country - and, by coincidence, it's the same video that is discussed on this page:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKgbIz6CM_E
User2 gives him this url:
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/rKgbIz6CM_E
I think it's clear how you obtain from a video's url the second url mentioned here (the last part is the videos name, actually - rKgb...etc)
I put that second url in the browser, click Enter, and it pops up a file save dialogbox, not a page in the browser. I clicked "Save", and it's a file about 8 kB, with no name extension - but actually, it's a textfile, with HTML-like code in it. Use Notepad to open it. And inside, I found this code:
KY YE BY IO CX BS YT MO CM TJ TF PN TH KR MV KM SO GN AS RW ER SN MY BV TO TK KN IL ME AL MZ NO DJ UA AG SA FR UZ JM RS IM FK CH VE SJ PW CU MH BZ AZ NF KZ AN TR TC BT GI AT SG NG PT MQ MC SE RO NP HU LB GB CF AR MG PM GF VU LA LU FO CK AE SV ML AM CR GQ WS SZ ZM VA ZA GU CI LV HK MT UM KI MW NI WF LK PS VI TT MU BD DE FI OM LC DK CC TG SK GR IE GL EG PA VC LS IN MP SI SB RE TD PH HM AD UY UG MM FM KG CS CD PG PY ES DO GP JE PK HR PL GM ID SR GA CZ AI SD SL VG GT TV IT NU GW GG TP BH LT TZ BJ BA IQ KP DM BF MS BM BE TM NR DZ GH FJ JO CL BO CG NE CO CY BW SC GD KE PR MA CN QA IR CA AQ MK GE BN IS RU CV BB NL AW MN AU BR ST HN ET TW BI PE NC KW TN LY VN SM NA TL AO KH HT LI EC AF JP GS SY MX GY LR EE MR ZW NZ EH BG MD SH PF
So, there's obvious, that these must be two-letter country codes, and there are a lot of countries "denied". For instance, I can see: RU - Russia, RO - Romania, HU - Hungary, etc etc NZ (you), AU (your neighbours). I numbered the above country codes, and there are 244 countries there! I googled how many countries are in the world, and it seems that there are 245. So the one country that is not here is obviously the US. The only country where that video is allowed.
And this procedure mentioned here can be done with every video, to find out where is restricted in the world (and then we can deduce where is permitted). Yeah... No comment.
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((media:restriction type='country' relationship='deny')) KY YE BY IO CX BS YT ...............................MR ZW NZ EH BG MD SH PF ((/media:restriction)) (I replaced the angle brackets with two parentheses)
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With FIREFOX you can...
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Still waiting...
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Re: Still waiting...
It's in the link, but the movie is called "The Princess of Nebraska."
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country limits are a pain to everyone
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You can probably redundantly add in "low budget" in that sentence. The CNN link had the director saying he had money left over from his previous independent movie ("A Thousand Years of Good Prayers") and he used the leftover to shoot "The Princess of Nebraska" for youtube distribution.
Certainly you'd want to try this distribution experiment on a low budget film.
Compare this to Michael Moore's "Slacker uprising" with an estimated budget of $2 million.
For reference, Michael Moore's normally distributed movies had budgets like $4 million ("Bowling for Columbine") to $9 million ("Sicko"). Wayne Wang did "Maid in Manhattan" on a $55 million budget.
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None
...might aswell have torrented it. YouTube is crap anyway.
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You CAN download this video
somebody in the US PLEASE PLEASE download this and upload the torrent so the rest of the world can watch it. we'll be eternally grateful!!!
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watch all movies
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