Elite Squad, its sequel and piracy
In 2007, a crazy phenomenon took place in Brazil. A R$ 13.5 million movie - about US$ 800,000.00 - made by Jose Padilha became a huge hit in the whole country and even in the international scene. If you're hip enough to be reading this, you probably watched it.
Even before this movie hit the theaters, it was watched by over 1.7 million people. Apparently, leaked DVDs were distributed through the best system in the world: poor street sellers. In my opinion, although the quality of the movie is indisputable, this distribution system has played a huge role in the success of the Elite Squad in 2007.
The sequel is about to be release this October 8th.
If you speak Portuguese, you might want to see this interview with the director himself. He makes it clear in this interview just how much work they put in against piracy. A lot of work was put in the movie, and I strongly sympathize with the effort to make money with it. I don't condemn piracy, as if it was a crime, because in my opinion it isn't.
However, I do wanna see the movie.
I live in Japan, and current technology could make it terribly easy to distribute the movie directly to consumers such as myself. I'm willing to pay too.
Now I honestly wanna complain and bitch my ass off about having to wait SEVERAL months before actually being able to watch this. I mean, can't I even pay and download it off of iTunes, please? On the other hand, basically all of the DRM schemes are essentially broken and terribly restrictive for the consumer. That means that putting digital copies will open the dam that was erected to hold that barrage of piracy. Tough.
Even before this movie hit the theaters, it was watched by over 1.7 million people. Apparently, leaked DVDs were distributed through the best system in the world: poor street sellers. In my opinion, although the quality of the movie is indisputable, this distribution system has played a huge role in the success of the Elite Squad in 2007.
The sequel is about to be release this October 8th.
If you speak Portuguese, you might want to see this interview with the director himself. He makes it clear in this interview just how much work they put in against piracy. A lot of work was put in the movie, and I strongly sympathize with the effort to make money with it. I don't condemn piracy, as if it was a crime, because in my opinion it isn't.
However, I do wanna see the movie.
I live in Japan, and current technology could make it terribly easy to distribute the movie directly to consumers such as myself. I'm willing to pay too.
Now I honestly wanna complain and bitch my ass off about having to wait SEVERAL months before actually being able to watch this. I mean, can't I even pay and download it off of iTunes, please? On the other hand, basically all of the DRM schemes are essentially broken and terribly restrictive for the consumer. That means that putting digital copies will open the dam that was erected to hold that barrage of piracy. Tough.
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