Uploading artists work online so that people don't
have to pay or wait for the physical or digital release undermines the
entire creative process and the artist's right to make a living from their
art. Your right to see/own a copy of their work does NOT precede the
artist's right to make a living. You have a right to see/own it when you pay
for it! Independent artists are essentially self-funded. You are stealing
directly from them by providing their work freely.
Furthermore uploading only certain actor's parts of
a film not only diminishes the work of all the other talented people
involved it misses the point of the film, which can only be understood in its
entirety. If illegal uploads increase significantly when a certain actor is in
a film they may be an asset for their talent but YOU are turning them into a
financial liability by making them high risk actors. So since many of you
clearly have no compassion for the film-makers and all the hard work, talent and
heart that goes into bringing us their work you may have somewhere inside you a
shred of compassion for the actors you claim to admire and start supporting
their work by supporting the entirety of the film instead of stealing from the
creators to feed your obsessions.
To love indie film is a passion. They are not
backed by multi-million dollar studios or churned out regularly like
Hollywood films; not that I'm condoning stealing Hollywood movies.
If you wish to see them you have to be patient. If you wish indie
film-makers to keep creating these beautiful films you have to pay for them. If
you wish your favourite actors to keep getting work stop stealing the films
they are in. Have some respect; not only for the creative process but the
hard working, talented people behind the films, because without their vision
there are no films.
PS. I don't care what country you are from. Film-makers
do not work to feed your obsessions, they work to tell stories. I'm from
Australia and that makes it just as difficult for me to see indie films as for many
of you; but you know what I travel and I wait. And I am happy to wait because I
know that the films are worth it and that in supporting the artists I'm helping
them do something they love, something they generously share with us for us to
love.
