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Torrentfreak TorrentFreak Home Contact About Archives Forum Documentary Filmmaker Supports BitTorrent Uploader Written by enigmax on May 14, 2009 When a filmmaker first discovered that his new movie had leaked to the Internet, he was pretty upset. However, this creator has some hacker friends who persuaded him to feel more relaxed about reaching a whole new audience. Right now, he is embracing file-sharing and even the uploader who released his work via BitTorrent sites. Help a Childrens Cause Join Trident in Being Part of the Solution. Make a Difference Today! TridentGum.com Online Films Watch & Share your passion 4 Movies Press Play on Babelgum: 100% Free! www.Babelgum.com/Films HD Video Productions Superior digital video productions Professional and high quality. www.sparkplughd.com Last week, ‘godcanjudgeme‘, a prolific uploader to Demonoid, The Pirate Bay, Mininova and OneBigTorrent, made another upload to add to his long list of releases, but this one turned out a little differently to all the others. Blue Gold : World Water Wars from director Sam Bozzo is a movie about one of planet earth’s most precious resources – water. It examines the ‘future’ for water and how various corporations are plotting to control its supply, how governments use water for political gain and how the control of this essential liquid could be the source of future military conflicts. Of course, when anyone uploads a movie to the Internet in breach of copyright, there is always the chance of a different type of conflict – one with the entertainment companies and their anti-piracy allies. However, this particular movie is independent and less likely to attract that type of attention. Perhaps because of this and a warmth towards independent creators, the movie’s BitTorrent uploader godcanjudgeme added a note to his release on The Pirate Bay, encouraging people to financially support the movie by giving donations to the creators via their website. Then something surprising happened. “A message was sent to a third party ‘acquaintance’ of mine, from the film’s producer Sam Bozzo,” godcanjudgeme told TorrentFreak. Dear Torrent users, I thank all of you for your interest in my film. When I read the book Blue Gold, I knew immediately I must utilize my film talents to relay the urgency of prioritizing our fresh water management for the survival of our race. I had no idea of the financial and physical risks that making this film would entail at the time, and if I did I honestly would not have made the film. Luckily for the world, the film exists, and so it is my goal to follow the advise of the first press review which proclaimed “Every person on the planet must see this film”. In this respect I thank godcanjudgeme for uploading this torrent and bringing a new audience to the film. I have seen film festival audiences around the world transformed by the stories of the heroes of the water wars. I am thrilled that in the US and Canada the DVD is available via shoppbs.org and amazon.ca respectively. I respect the internet community that chooses to view films through torrents like this for whatever reason. In fact my first documentary, Hackers Wanted, focuses on the philosophy of true hackers and their journeys exploring cyberspace. It is important to understand that independent films costs a great deal of personal finances to create, in this case over $100,000. In order that I may make other films in the future, I must at least make my money back. I respectfully ask that if you download the film you consider donating $5-$10 to the further publicity of the film via PayPal on my site www.bluegold- worldwaterwars.com. Also consider reviewing the film favorably on IMDB and recommending that others buy the DVD. To be honest, at first I was upset to see this torrent, this film ‘leak’, but some good hacker friends have suggested I embrace the opportunity to reach a new audience, and I feel honored to be doing so! So what inspired godcanjudgeme to upload the torrent in the first instance? “I had received a number of requests for “Blue Gold : World Water Wars” after uploading another documentary entitled “Flow : The Love Of Water” which runs along similar lines,” he told TorrentFreak. “It is a topic which should be close to everyone’s hearts. The main reason for uploading “Blue Gold” was that it simply wasn’t available outside America, and so many people were wanting to see it,” he added. Godcanjudgeme explained that he firmly believes that the downloaders of this particular documentary are not the average ‘hit and run’ movie grabber. “I felt that in this case these are people that would have gone to a screening or purchased a copy if it was an option,” he told TorrentFeak. “Therefore I truly hope people will realize that independent filmmakers do need our support. If this were a multi million dollar production I could expect no consideration for the producers of the film, but in this case however it was decided to ask that people give something in return to the persons responsible for providing not only entertainment but insight.” “We all have movies that we have downloaded for free,” he added, “probably large numbers of them, in this case I think it’s time to show our support.” Since Sam Bozzo is embracing BitTorrent, it seems appropriate to add links where people can download the movie. And in the spirit in which godcanjudgeme uploaded the movie, please consider donating. The DVDRip can be downloaded from OneBigTorrent or The Pirate Bay . Saved in: Copyright Issues, P2P and Filesharing Tags: Blue Gold : World Water Wars, godcanjudgeme Previously: Vulnerability Renders MPAA/RIAA Copyright Warnings Useless Next: Shocking: Pirates Like Britney Spears Too 189 diggs digg it 1 reddit Related Entries Avoid Downloading Fake Torrents and Spam with Vertor ImageShack’s Free Torrent Download Service Expands Hackers Run Wild Spending BitTorrent Tracker’s Donations Bitchtorrent: Bram Cohen Invents New Protocol 82 Responses 1 May 14, 2009 at 18:38 by chaos hope some more convincing brains work better in future. 2 May 14, 2009 at 18:44 by dudemeister This is good to hear for a change! :) 3 May 14, 2009 at 19:02 by BuggerMeButtocks Off topic anyone know whats happened to REVOLUTION TT. Site and tracker both down :(.
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