Pues que o bien desaparece de escena o llega alguien que la "piratea" y la comparte. ... (y el autor se alegra, o por lo menos no parece desagradarle).
Johan Norberg dirigió el documental Globalisation is good, que se emitió en la televisión británica hace unos dos años. Allí se acabó la historia. El autor intentó recuperar los derechos para poder distribuirla y que la gente pueda verla (lo que único que parece querer el autor es transmitir su mensaje). Ha sido imposible. No la puede distribuir ni, por lo que parece, se vende. Ni siquiera Amazon, el "long-tail business" por antonomasia, la tiene en su catálogo. Ahora Johan Norberg nos informa, I am being shared, que si hay una forma de conseguir la obra: dos sitios las distribuyen "libremente" en formato torrent:
For a long time, people have asked me where they can get hold of my film Globalisation is good. My response has always been that you can´t. We have been negotiating with the company that owns it, but it seems very complicated to clear all the rights, and so far we have been unsuccessful.
But now I just learned that someone hat put a bootleg of the film on the web, both on UKNova and on Pirate Bay. So I thought that this an excellent opportunity to explain what I think about file sharing.
On principle I think it is wrong to distribute someone´s film without their permission. In this case, I don´t mind, I am only interested in getting my message out there, but there are others involved, musicians and so on, who won´t be paid for their work.
On the other hand: This is a new technology that exists, and it would be unjust to outlaw or control the use of it because some people abuse it. Instead the companies will have to make their own distribution as smooth and efficient as possible, in order to compete. If they don´t, they will lose.
Just take my film as an example. It was shown on UK television almost two years ago, and ever since then we have tried to obtain the permission to distribute it. And we have failed. In that case I think it is our own fault that someone gets fed up and takes care of the distribution the underground way.
