Apple's new rental deal with the studios sounds promising. I'd steer the legal machinery towards stopping the true black market – counterfeit discs and camcorder specials – and spend more time coming up with legitimate, convenient alternatives to the torrents, so that's it's not any more difficult to find and download a movie legally. So I have a hard time arguing that a reader in Germany should pay for the movie when there's no way he could.Īugust goes on to say that he has far less tolerance for viewers who download a film that is openly available to them, be it on DVD or theatrically, but even then, he seems to think that downloading his film is less harmful than buying a bootleg of it on the streets of New York, referring to the latter as "organized crime" and torrent sites as merely "far less noble." Moreover, he says that Hollywood should lay off the downloaders and lay on an innovative solution. As many commenters have pointed out, The Nines isn't available in any legal form in many countries around the world, nor will it be in any foreseeable time frame. I'm not bouncy with joy over my movie getting torrented, but I think it's a stretch to equate unlawful downloading with traditional theft. And it's clear that August has received a lot of flack for doing so, as he's extended on his prior statements and countered others' directed at him in another blog entry. You don't see a lot, actually any, directors making the correlation between illegal torrent leaks of their films, their films' popularity and consumer interest, but August has voiced up.
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