Did Miramax Give Torrent Seeker A Free Movie Ticket?
from the odder-things-have-happened... dept
Really not sure what to make of this one, but people keep submitting it, so might as well put it out there to see what people think: apparently, a girl in NY complained on Twitter that she couldn't find the movie Adventureland online to download as a torrent, and Miramax (which put out the film), Twittered back telling her that she shouldn't download it (and, in a slightly creepy way, included the hashtag #fbi). The girl supposedly wrote back: "Okay I won’t, JUST FOR YOU," at which point, Miramax promised her two free tickets to the movie (though, in the end, she supposedly only got one).What's odd is that the reactions among submitters has gone to both extremes -- with one group finding it freaky and suggesting that it would piss off fans of the movie -- while others actually found it oddly humanizing and endearing by Miramax (though... pretty much everyone felt that the whole FBI reference could have been left aside). I'm leaning a bit towards the latter option. As I noted when the Wolverine leak happened, studios are never going to be able to stop unauthorized file sharing, but they might as well figure out ways to act cool about it, and leverage it to their best advantage. It's not clear which side of that line Miramax is on right now... but hopefully it closer to acting cool, rather than acting as a creepy stalker.
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hmmm
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lies
people just suck up to the hype.
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clarification
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I don't think it was cool...
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=miramaxfilms+%23fbi
One tweet says "Wow, you really want to admit that. You can't delete tweets you know. #fbi"
Another: "miramaxfilms: @theoisjonesing cmon man, don't tell us your going to be a pirate. #adventureland #fbi"
Why not find out why they feel the need to use torrents instead of vaguely threatening to turn you in.
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Get over yourself. It's all out in the open, the #fbi seems tongue in cheek since the FBI can search for 'torrent' themselves. A tweet hash tag is not a damn bat signal.
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Two Tickets?
(please put some more up buddy)
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Bruno
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