Comments on: Off-topic: more on the death of the music business

By: Scott Simmons

Scott Simmons — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:44:41 +0000

True Jon but don’t they have that same issue with all the chaff music out there too? Or at least some of these independent services have to do that. There’s no reason the same thing couldn’t happen with indie film.

By: Jon Chappell

Jon Chappell — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:26:28 +0000

If the iTunes store opened up their doors to indie filmmakers, they would be flooded with new content, and most likely the majority of it would be awful. How would Apple separate the wheat from the chaff? It’d be very difficult. And that means that the filmmakers who have something worthwhile to say run the risk of having their voices lost in the crowd. Now, you could argue that a lot of these indies aren’t having their voices heard AT ALL right now, so I guess that would be a slightly better situation. But not much better.

By: Tim Wilsbach

Tim Wilsbach — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:56:44 +0000

Thanks for the find, about to click through.

Its less about having available online distribution channels (iTunes, Amazon O-D etc) and more about having the marketing muscle behind a film or band/artist. Just the fact that its easily available, unfortunately doesn’t make people look for it.

By: Grant

Grant — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:50:46 +0000

“What we really need for us in the filmmaking world is our own equivalent to iTunes.”

I’m curious, from an indie filmmaker’s perspective, would that iTunes alternative/equivalent include some form of DRM? Is that considered a more acceptable practice in movies vs. music?

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:34:17 +0000

AMEN!