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Ask HN: How to take advantage of your film being torrented?
8 points by soperj on July 16, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments
Yesterday, our film company just released it's first feature film(plug: www.bronytalemovie.com) to digital media after a successful festival and theater run. Today it's now on the pirate bay. It was pretty obvious that it would end up on there, but now that it's there, I was wondering what the best possible way to take advantage of that would be? Initial thoughts would be that we could get some free community translations from people who are watching it via sites like subscene.com and opensubtitle.org. Another idea would be to actually join the pirate bay and ask that if you're not going to buy the movie could you at least spread the word, and hope for a sale through word of mouth to friends and family. Any other ideas about what you can do to leverage a movie being torrented? Thanks.


Iron Maiden found in what cities there music was being most torrented, and went and played concerts there. This helped curbed the piracy and gain new fans. You could hold movie screenings in a bunch of cities and have a place to buy DVDs and other merchandise. Article: http://www.citeworld.com/article/2115676/big-data-analytics/...


It's interesting, but it's pretty well impossible to get a theater interested in playing your movie once it's out for public consumption.


The Monty Python added some official high quality videos, and that increased the official sales. HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=446807 (56 points, 2000 days ago, 43 comments) (56 points was a lot in those old days).


Cool, thanks for this!


Definitely add your spiel to the listing on the pirate bay website... see 'Indie Game the Movie' there.

http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7700740




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