Well, a few months ago, Monty Python started an official YouTube channel of clips from the groups movies and TV series, and provided easy links for people to buy their DVDs. A few interesting things happened:
• With official, higher quality clips online, people stopped uploading their own illegal versions.
• Their DVD sales increased 23,000%.
That's not one of my (many, many) typos; Monty Python's DVD sales increased twenty-three thousand percent after putting up their content for free. For free. Online. Sales increased. 2-3-0-0-0. I find this incredibly awesome. After so many years of so much resistance and stupidity from so many people regarding content on the internet, Monty Python of all people comes along, offers all their shit for free, and makes a ton of money. That's just awesome.
2 comments:
I subscribed to that channel some time ago, its awsome, and it works on me =P i have plans to buy Life of brian and The Meaning of life
Certainly shows that all this talk of downloading films and music affecting the respective industries is a pile of rubbish
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