[FoRK] Inidistribution

[Tom Higgins]

Found this article up on greylodge and it rings more than true.
http://greylodge.org/gpc/?p=1236

A piece from it...

""The Man from Earth" in particular has become immensely popular due
to its distribution on BitTorrent. After RLSlog reviewed the film and
linked to a torrent of it and to the official site, the producer wrote
to the blogger, thanking him for reviewing it. They had received some
23,000 hits in the days following the review and went from the being
the 11,235th most popular movie on IMDB to being the 5th most popular
one, and the most popular independent film in a matter of days. He
said:

    "Our independent movie had next to no advertising budget and very
little going for it until somebody ripped one of the DVD screeners and
put the movie online for all to download. After that happened, people
were watching it and started posting mostly all positive reviews on
IMDb, Amazon and other places. Most of the feedback from everyone who
has downloaded "The Man From Earth" has been overwhelmingly positive.
People like our movie and are talking about it, all thanks to piracy
on the net!"
"

Gaining eyeballs for all but the top percentage of films is a hard
road. There are films/docus I have seen over the years I wished had a
wider release just so I can spike the convos with references to them
and not get the suburban blank face.

Many roads to the long tail.

-tomhiggins