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Excerpt from Gregory Bayne's blog:
"On Saturday night (October 2nd) PERSON OF INTEREST screened at the 2010 Open Video Conference as part of the Shared Film Festival, sponsored by BitTorrent, and curated by our partners at VODO. Simultaneously, we released the film worldwide via VODO as a free to share P2P download.
Some have asked if our decision to ‘give’ PERSON OF INTEREST away in this manner is prudent, as many in the film, and increasingly in the independent film industry are decrying internet piracy as the primary basis of potential lost revenue for films. We simply don’t see it that way. We see it as a completely new opportunity to distribute work, and create new audience relationships worldwide that, prior to now, would not have been possible. We prescribe to VODO’s philosophy that is summed up in their recent blog post:
“One of our core beliefs at VODO is that “peer to peer” ultimately means that everyone is a distributor. To us, this is a really big and important change: it means we no longer have to rely on big media, big business, big anything to have our ideas seen and heard. We think a lot of interesting social changes will spin out of this single fact. And that’s why we’re working on VODO. Business people call it ‘disruption’. We prefer to think of it as transformation.”
read the full post on Bayne's blog & watch the film:
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