“If you like it, support it, and remember that sharing is caring,” the torrent description concludes. Nevertheless, it seems to work for this gaggle of creators. Just don’t expect The Pirate Bay to become a hotbed for Sony, Universal and Disney to publish their content for free. It’s a left-field take of how illegally downloading an indie movie inadvertently helped fuel its success. And of course we’re asking people not to post the movie at YouTube or any other platform where someone (other than us) could profit financially from it,” director Richard Schenkman told TorrentFreak. After being shut down in October of 2004, the site gradually added support for other languages. TPB, or The Pirate Bay, was founded in 2003 mostly by Swedish ace sharing organization Pirate bay and was first available only in the Swedish language. “We’re asking people to share ONLY this version of the movie - NOT to edit off the appeal message. The Pirate Bay is a trusted torrenting platform. The movie’s also available on Vimeo, but not on YouTube. “Our independent movie had next to no advertising budget and very little going for it until somebody ripped one of the DVD screeners and put the movie online for all to download,” he wrote, and thanked piracy for buffing the movie’s profile online later in the email.Ī decade later, the movie’s sequel has been uploaded to The Pirate Bay by the creators themselves and is completely legal to download.īut because making movies is not a cheap process, they are calling for donations. The Man From Earth: Holocene’s creators are using The Pirate Bay as a legal movie distribution tool Not quite sure why, he stumbled across a review of the movie on RLSlog - a torrent review site.

In 2007, movie producer Eric Wilkinson found his indie sci-fi flick The Man From Earth was trending on IMDB.

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