Learning How to Make Lemonade When Your Work is Pirated

Most people that are interested in making movies or writing books will more than likely find their works pirated all over the internet.  Despite all the DRM or related countermeasures one can place on their media products its all gonna end up pirated someway and somewhere.

One can sue the pirates and try to shut down their sites; the downside is it involves money and time.  Those are two resources that most indie folks cannot afford to loose.  There is also the risk of loosing an audience who could feel alienated, and they don't exactly like it when someone they like comes around and slaps a lawsuit against them.  That is a sure way of loosing a fan or two. 

So the question is, what should you do when pirated?  Well, pulp guru, Bill Cunningham, has the answers about how to take a lemon and make lemonade out of it.  Go here to learn how to fight piracy by offering a little extra to your audience.

How to Create Trans Media for Your Own Project

Been a bit busy lately but I wanted to drop by and share this neat video on Trans Media.  For those wondering what Trans Media is, it's a great way of sharing your project in various formats across the net. 

For example creating a movie that spawns a video game and online comic book alongside a web serial spin-off.  The sky is the limit.  Check out the vid below for a better explanation and how you can make it happen.  (h/t to The Frugal Filmmaker)


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Red Faction Tries Multi-Platform Approach

THQ is releasing the latest installmnent of the video game Red Faction with the brilliant plan to coincide it's release with a SyFy Movie, a downloadable arcade game, and a comic book.  In doing so, the plan is to get their brand recongnized and in front of people whether it be on TV, a Iphone, or from the local comic shop. 

Releasing a product or brand in as many formats as possible should not be a new idea to readers of this blog or Pulp 2.0 where Bill Cunningham has been preaching the glories of new media and getting into as many hands as possible.

Full details of the Red Faction release can be found here. 

Learn more about new media and creating a multi-platform brand here.

A WRITER'S VIEW ON PIRACY

Thriller genre author Joe Konrath discusses his books being pirated and his thoughts on the whole piracy vs authors debate. 

It's a brilliant look at how Konrath's own books afre being pirated and better ways authors can look at publishing their books online such as ebooks while facing piracy.  Go here for the full article.

 (via Pulp 2.0)