Comments on: Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent 03-26-12

By: Filmovi Online

Filmovi Online — Thu, 24 May 2012 15:46:34 +0000

I don’t like any of them. Films from Europa are much artistic and better . David Lynchhhhhh Forever!

By: Mikos

Mikos — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:35:48 +0000

What’s the skinny on English muffins? I suspect they’re bogus.

Anyway, maybe ticket prices have something to do with downloads. Who wants to spend upwards of 16 bucks for an “okay” movie? Family of four plus treats – gets crazy quick.

Also Jeff, any thoughts on the SAG/AFTRA merger? Is it really better for actors? Or just for producers?

By: Andy Halmay

Andy Halmay — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 04:57:28 +0000

A funny thought just struck me that might become reality the odd time – a producer with an inadequate promo budget makes a few bad copies of his own film and slips them into the pirated film market for others to make additional copies. Of course, he sells the original copies for all he can get while posing as a pirate and these bad copies function as trailers in a sense to draw attention to his film.

By: Jeff Steele

Jeff Steele — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 03:43:07 +0000

I think pirate forums provide an interesting counter-offensive when distributors try to overhype a mediocre films, by marketing the public into submission (like “The Devil Inside”.)

By: Jeff Steele

Jeff Steele — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 03:31:32 +0000

People are people and word-of-mouth is word-of-mouth. TS piracy neither a predictor nor lagging-indicator of box office success because it’s concurrent with the box office release. I believe it can help and hurt a film’s home-video release. “Hobo with a Shotgun” is the most recent example of piracy word-of-mouth lifting a film out of obscurity, into the mainstream.

By: Jeff Steele

Jeff Steele — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 03:25:51 +0000

I’ve been to London to visit the Queen.

By: Rex

Rex — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:59:45 +0000

Welcome back Jeff. Where have you been?

By: Andy Halmay

Andy Halmay — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:49:36 +0000

1. Good to read you again, Jeff. It has been a while.

2. This is interesting. Can piracy actually help a film by spreading the word?

3. Is there a relationship between the popularity of pirated films and box office or do they have different audiences?

By: Oli Lewington

Oli Lewington — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:10:43 +0000

I agree that the numbers are probably relatively small, but the likelihood is that the Zoo numbers, at least, are affected by the fact that it’s being released in the UK this month.

I’d love to see a breakdown of the numbers here, not only total number of downloads, but also the countries they are coming from.

But I’m also really interested in your attitude, Jeff, that bad quality piracy may actually be able to help sales of a film; is this the kind of thing that only works for a limited number of releases with poor pre-press (“Actually, I saw 21 Jump Street the other day and it’s not as bad as I was expecting”), or do you think bad pirates can serve sales on all types of flicks?

By: Scott Hillman

Scott Hillman — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 22:41:56 +0000

I still find it fascinating how random these lists are. the fact that an okay family drama like “We bought a zoo” is number 2 and was previously number three suggests that

1. the number of film downloads are incredibly small. Small sample size anything is possible-which is unlikely

2. that The studio has done a pisspoor job protecting it-which is unlikely as there isn’t great way of doing it.

3. I don’t know. How does this happen? How does a 6 month old family movie become an illegal downloading hit so much latter?