[opendtv] Re: Rejected TV Pilot Thrives on P2P
- From: "John Willkie" <JohnWillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 01:14:11 -0700
clever, like lying?
Has a rejected TV program ever achieved commercial success -- let's say, a
second season -- with clever development money?
John Willkie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Barry" <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 4:35 AM
Subject: [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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|
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