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As someone who has a big personal and professional interest in TPB, I think a documentary about TPB is an excellent idea as I feel the project has run its cours
by dotBen 16y ago
As someone who has a big personal and professional interest in TPB, I think a documentary about TPB is an excellent idea as I feel the project has run its course and so now is the time to capture the story for prosperity.
BUT, I have two issues with this project:
Firstly, the guy asserts that he has met and interviewed Brokep and the other founders of TPB on film. But he refers to Brokep as "BRO-KEP" (which is how most people assume you pronounce the name). If he had spoken with him (like I have) he would know his name is pronounced "BROKE-P" (short for Broke Peter).
It's probably nothing but it's a bit weird and I don't understand how someone who has met the guy AND interviewed him on camera would make such an fundamental mistake.
Secondly, it all feels the wrong order of things - he says he's already done the filming and NOW wants funding for editing?
Simon Klose clearly has editing skills himself and so I don't understand why he wants to bring in an external editor at this point. A "better" editor can only work with the footage he has, so if Simon was going to bring in an editor it would have been better to have started working with the editor pre-filming to consider + agree a documentary style, angles, overall narrative, etc.
To his credit, I would point out that Simon Klose is a Swedish national - and that gives me a lot of faith. I've found that the TPB folks are quite suspicious of talking to anyone who isn't Swedish and so I think a great merchant-of-record documentary on the subject needs to come from a Swedish film maker.
I might still donate something but given the end-footage is going to be released as CC-NC I'd like to know what will happen from the proceeds of the commercialization of the footage by the rights holder (Klose)
- jrockway 16y agoIf he had spoken with him (like I have) he would know his name is pronounced "BROKE-P" (short for Broke Peter). Wait, it's not a Common Lisp reference?
- pyre 16y agos/prosperity/posterity/
- jacquesm 16y agoIf the profit is high enough prosperity might be accurate in that context.
- waxpancake 16y agoThe film's endorsed by Brokep himself: http://twitter.com/brokep/status/22381871767 http://twitter.com/brokep/status/22381871767