Firefly Sets Yet Another Record!

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UPDATED: Friday, February 23, 2007 02:07
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IVY

Thursday, January 18, 2007 4:20 AM

Hmmmm, I'm pretty much tech stupid, but my husband is a total tech-head (likely to be found surfing Gizmodo at all hours of the day and night). I just read him the initial post in this thread and it seems he knew all about it but didn't bother to tell me because he thought I'd be bored by the tech talk. (which of course led to tech talk...)

Anyway, we have a really sweet HDTV but my husband absolutely refuses to buy a HD DVD player until one technology wins. (I'm old enough to remember VHS/Beta so I actually understand his reasoning). He said that he was actually going to download the pirated version of Serenity as a suprise to me and to see what the quality looks like.

I am a very law-abiding, rule-following person, but I don't feel bad about this one bit. I've personally purchased about 10 copies of Serenity and almost as many box sets of Firefly (for gifts). I will absolutely purchase the HD DVD when we finally have a player. They are getting plenty of my $$ and will, no doubt, get a lot more in the future.

No guilt here.

Ivy

I've been sane a long while now, and change is good...

SIGMANUNKI

Thursday, January 18, 2007 4:40 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by mazaen:

In a day an age where movie sales are at an all time low due to increased game sales, if everyone pirated the movies, companies would go out of business and we the browncoat fans wouldn't get that unexpected and against all odds Serenity movie.

You ever stop to think why games are up so much and movies are down so much?

Let's look at this in terms of just money.

Movie: $20-30 == 1:20-3hrs entertainment

Game: $30-80 == 8-60hrs entertainment

Also, games are interactive.

Now, take a good long hard look at those numbers. Why, honestly WHY would people stick with movies?

And as someone else above said, the games industry is getting hit at least as hard (arguably harder), and do we hear them constantly bitching? No. In fact, the industry is growing.

All the movie/recording industry is doing is crying that the sky is falling.

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I am on The List. We are The Forsaken and we aim to burn!
"We don't fear the reaper"

ICHITHEKILLER77

Thursday, January 18, 2007 5:20 AM

dont lose all hope my people... if universal brings the movie to XBOX live.. yes the XBOX 360 can download movies on HD and on standard form... and if you look it up movies on XBOX live are selling very well... maybe we should make a petition for that... but you guys need to get a XBOX 360!!!

I miss watching the show :(.... but i got my xbox in handy.. so go to xboxsoft.net

CEDRIC

Thursday, January 18, 2007 6:49 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by BrownCoat1:
Here's hoping that the BDM being up on Bit Torrent will lead some new people to buy the dvd and join the browncoat ranks.

Hear, hear! I don't really like piracy--I know what it feels like for the artist getting ripped--but this is one more way to spread the signal.

Though if the data pirates *really* want to help the cause, they could mass produce illegal discs of Serenity 1 & 2 (the episodes), Our Mrs. Reynolds, and Out of Gas, and hand them out for free. Not that I'm advocating that plan, but if I were Fox, I'd be handing out free samplers of Firefly left and right. It could only boost DVD sales.

"Some things stay with you, 'til the day you die."
On the Drift: Music Inspired by Firefly and Serenity, now on sale at
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bedlambards/from/celtic

LEXIBLOCK

Thursday, January 18, 2007 11:16 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by ecgordon:
I wish you hadn't given this information, and hopefully very few people take advantage of it. Anything that keeps people from buying official Universal DVDs is not good.

Yeah right, because it will have a big effect on wether or not people buy it - no wait, it won't.

MAGDALENA

Thursday, January 18, 2007 11:26 AM

I really don't go for pirated music or movies myownself because I come from an artistic/performance background and know how much it bites into the rights of the performer - but having said that - if there is something I really want and I have the opportunity to try it on pirated copy I do that and if I like it I will buy it later on...

Lets hope most people are like that and end up loving the whole thing so much that they do what I do to show their support!

...lets hope...

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"I can put one foot in front of the other - I'm Magdalena, & I'm marching with the 76th" http://76thbattalion.homestead.com/index.html

ASARIAN

Thursday, January 18, 2007 12:28 PM

Here's how I see it. Since I already bought the Serenity HD-DVD (even though I don't have a player yet, lol), I have no quams with downloading a hacked version, too. I come in it at being able to have access to the material. Had I not bought the HD-DVD, I wouldn't download it. But considering how many legal Firefly boxes I purchased already (for friends and such), I'd say they owe me at least full access to the material. It's like suddenly they invented a book you couldn't Xerox anymore; how silly would that be? If I need to Xerox a page, or scan it, I'll darn well do so as I please.

But back to access to the material, I make some occasional Firefly art; and I like to take screengrabs from the source direcly. Do it all the time. So, now the man says we can't do that no more with HD-DVD? I say differently. :) I paid for it, I want access to it. Period. Way I figure this, with the hacked HD-DVD copy, us people have been given the highest end of screen-cap resolution ever offered a human soul in this crap-heel 'verse.

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"Mei-mei, everything I have is right here." -- Simon Tam

VERTEBREAKER

Thursday, January 18, 2007 2:56 PM

I'm positive this has been brought up, since I only scanned the topic, but this gets the 'Verse a lot of "free" press. Yeah, there might be some people that download it, but honestly, a lot of people might see the hassle in acquiring a near 20 GB movie. It might get people interested in the movie, though. *shrug*

And, like it's been said, those that DO watch it should be instantly converted to Browncoats.

As much as I dislike anyone who's ever downloaded more than two episodes of Firefly without buying the discs, a few people downloading BDM and spreading the good word will probably do more good than bad.

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KAIN

Thursday, January 18, 2007 4:09 PM

This is the real truth of it, if people see something and like it they will go buy it. EVERYONE I have let borrow my Firefly series are now BROWNCOATS. NO exceptions. The fact that Serenity is the first has got to get someones attention. Maybe one of those greedy execs will realize what we've been trying to tell them for years, PEOPLE WANT THIS!

to everyone that knows you can't stop the signal!

Kain

KAIN

Thursday, January 18, 2007 4:16 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Cedric:
Quote:
Originally posted by BrownCoat1:
Here's hoping that the BDM being up on Bit Torrent will lead some new people to buy the dvd and join the browncoat ranks.

Hear, hear! I don't really like piracy--I know what it feels like for the artist getting ripped--but this is one more way to spread the signal.

Though if the data pirates *really* want to help the cause, they could mass produce illegal discs of Serenity 1 & 2 (the episodes), Our Mrs. Reynolds, and Out of Gas, and hand them out for free. Not that I'm advocating that plan, but if I were Fox, I'd be handing out free samplers of Firefly left and right. It could only boost DVD sales.

"Some things stay with you, 'til the day you die."
On the Drift: Music Inspired by Firefly and Serenity, now on sale at
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bedlambards/from/celtic

Hey Cedric!
Boy are you right, we heard you guys perform a song or two off your CD and how many have I bought now? 6 at last count for friends and one just for my car! Tell Hawke "Kain and Mimi" say Hi and we hope to see you in Alabama, unless ya wanna hit Tennessee on your tour! :biggrin"

Kain

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