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Avatar PR helps new net site

// December 22nd, 2009 // p2p

- P2P:- Who first pointed out Avatar is online? And does anyone care? Every release makes it to the net either as a cam version followed by a screener and/or workprint, or all three at the same time. So whatever, Avatar is out there. And it won’t make a blind bit of difference to audience attendance or later DVD sales. Because good, bad or indifferent, it’s a must-see-in-the-cinema flick which’ll haul in millions or, as is more likely, billions of dollars. “This could have been Dances With Wolves on acid, but instead it’s like a rave with hippies (on acid),” said a recent Rotten Tomatoes reviewer on Avatar, “the 3D movie creator James Cameron promises will change cinema forever “. Isn’t that what they said about the first 3D offerings — the ones where you had to wear red and blue googles in cardboard frames? But it will make a big difference to net newcomer GetTheNews. Very good exposure “TorrentFreak published an article today based on a press release that some media company put out a couple days ago that featured both the new film Avatar, and our very own GetTheNew.com!” – says GetTheNew , quoting the entire TF article. “It’s a great article, and very good exposure for GetTheNew. A press release “put a lesser-known blog firmly in the spotlight,” says TorrentFreak , quoting it as saying, “James Cameron’s Avatar first appeared on a blog GetTheNew.com”. A lesser-known blog, eh?   Not any more. If the rather obscure press statement was initially seen by only a relative few, the TF story will certainly have changed that. It goes on > > > While the release states that the site is a source of information, those unfamiliar with how Internet piracy works could be forgiven for thinking that somehow GetTheNew was responsible for the leak, but that’s not true. GetTheNew, which opened just this September, told TorrentFreak that while they may have been the first site to publish the name of the pirate release (which incidentally leaked to P2P first, an increasing phenomenon), any Google searches the site provided would have come up blank since the movie had not hit public torrent sites yet. All GetTheNew had published at the time was a review of the movie and links to the relevant pages on IMDB. Says the press statement in question > > > Mere hours before its official release here on North American soil, James Cameron’s $400 million epic “Avatar” was published to the online community in the form of a pirated recording. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation attempted to contain the leaked material, but says a leak was inevitable. Eden Wright, a Fox representative, said that “piracy will play a much smaller role in stealing profits from [Avatar] due to the technological hurdles it imposes”. The film was released in 3D, making reproduction through a third party device nearly impossible on that product. Thus, even though it was pirated, the 2D recording was nothing close to the experience offered at your local Cineplex. “James Cameron’s Avatar” first appeared on a blog GetTheNew.com. The blog follows the format of similar release websites which offer information on the latest entertainment releases and where they can be obtained via popular methods such as BitTorrent and direct download services. It is estimated that these release blogs now account for as much as 20% of online piracy. When GetTheNew.com was contacted for comment, a representative sent us this email: “Our goal has never been to take anything away from the entertainment industries. Information on these releases is available on hundreds of sites like ours, but we [GetTheNew.com] do not host or provide any pirated materials. In-fact, our goal is to find a way to recapture potentially lost revenues and give it back to the industry that gives us these great releases. It’s time the industry stops trying to punish pirates, and gives them a chance to give back without having to go to their local brick and mortar months after a release.” Something new sites only dream of. - . More First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi change cinema forever – DRM drama wrecks German Avatar preview, December 18, 2009 GetTheNew – GetTheNew in the News, December 21, 2006 TorrentFreak – Avatar’s a BitTorrent Hit, But Fox Plays Down Piracy ‘Threat’, December 21, 2009 Use free p2pnet newsfeeds for your site. It`s really easy! Subscribe to - | | rss feed: http://-/p2p.rss | | Mobile – http://-/index-wml.php -? -