[opendtv] Re: Rejected TV Pilot Thrives on P2P


Jeroen Stessen (and his links) wrote:

" In Global Frequency, members of a good organization fight members of 
evil organizations using high-tech gadgets, industrial strength 
suspension of disbelief, and gun toting, martial arts kickin', totally 
hot women in various states of undress and hair color. Who could ask for 
anything more?"

This was of course enough to make me curious when I read it this 
morning, so I went looking for Global Frequency.  I found it still on 
the alt.binaries.multimedia news group, though it has been there for 
almost 20 days and likely won't be much longer.  Some technical details 
here for perspective.  It took me less than 20 minutes to download it on 
my Comcast broadband connection.  The total download ended up being 467 
MB.  And I notice it was in VCD format so could have been more efficient 
as an AVC file.

I won't have time to watch it this morning but being able to get it that 
  easily suggests there is already easy competition for broadcast in 
something like that.  Economically they probably could not finance it 
with commercials since someone would immediately strip them out for a 
faster download.  But I'll bet that a project like this might get some 
product placement money if they were clever.

I'd like to see some otherwise canceled or rejected series do a 
commercial trial of something like this.

- Tom  (who did purchase the DVD set of the foolishly canceled Firefly 
series)



> Hi, 
> 
> Craig is gonna love this. 
> See: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050629-5053.html?78073
> and: http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,67986,00.html
> 
> P2PTV: it's not just for Linux distros 
> 
> 6/29/2005 2:52:58 PM, by Charles Jade
> 
> While the Supreme Court was bringing down the gavel on P2P networks for 
> copyright 
> infringement, the never aired pilot for Global Frequency was anonymously 
> leaked on 
> the Internet. 
> 
> (...) 
> 
> and 
> 
> Rejected TV Pilot Thrives on P2P  
> 
> By Michael Grebb  |   Also by this reporter
> 02:00 AM Jun. 27, 2005 PT
> 
> How's this for irony? 
> A sacked TV pilot about a large number of people who stay in touch through 
> an 
> underground data network has popped up on ... well, an underground data 
> network. 
> The WB television network passed on the pilot for Global Frequency, a 
> sci-fi 
> adventure series based on the graphic novel by English scribe Warren 
> Ellis. 
> But that didn't stop someone from leaking the pilot on the internet. The 
> file 
> eventually found its way into the BitTorrent network. 
> 
> (...) 
> 
> "It changes the way I'll do my next project," said Rogers. If he owned the 
> full 
> rights, he said, "I would put my pilot out on the internet in a heartbeat. 
> 
> 
> (...) 
> 
> Greetings, 
> -- Jeroen
> 
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