p2pnet - rss feed: Gibson’s Passion: Number One
p2pnet.net News Opinion:- Speaking of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, it was “the most-pirated movie on Internet file-sharing networks in April,” says a Reuters report here, quoting Net scalp-hunters BayTSP.
Some 36,693 copies of The Passion were circulating on p2p networks in April with Universal Studio’s 21 Grams as the second most-circulated, says the story, adding:
“Hollywood officials are desperate to minimize the effects of file-sharing on their lucrative DVD business and avoid the same piracy problems that have sunk recorded music sales over the past four years.
“But a variety of new file-sharing technologies such as BitTorrent are emerging regularly, and swapping large movie-sized files has become easier as more consumers subscribe to high-speed broadband connections.”
Another factor, rarely mentioned, is: the major studios and Big Five record labels are alienating their customer bases to the extent that more and more people now ’share’ as much as a way to strike back at the entertainment industry as to get ‘product’.
May 12th, 2004 at 9:16 pm
I’ll be the first one to admit that I downloaded the Passion as soon as I could. Frankly I think that a lot of people were curious about the film but didn’t want to pay for it either out of concern over becoming sick from the gratuitous blood and gore or out of philisophical disagreements with the content. I haven’t watched the damn thing yet…though I have given out some free copies just to deprive Mel of some box office reciepts. I did this simply as a means of showing my contempt for the claim that an interpretation of an interpretation of an event that may not have occurred was historical truth and true to religious teachings. Sorry, even if we are to assume that the bible is a historical account, that does not mean that Gibson’s personal interpretation of the gospels, which vary from one another, can be presented as the new truth for religion. That and all the presentations of Jews as demons. Didn’t care for that much either.
May 13th, 2004 at 4:23 pm
“though I have given out some free copies”
So instead of just ignoring it and not giving it more attention you have illegally d/l’d it, adding fuel to the movie companies fires to go after people like you and have helped spread Mel’s interpretation to more people.
Good call.
May 15th, 2004 at 3:05 pm