After I first read that Scott Pilgrim article, I was thinking about numbers.
I realized that on the internet, if you get three million people to agree to something, those are mind-numbingly high numbers. It’s probably impossible to get three million people on the internet to agree that bacon is good, or that food is useful.
But if only three million people go see your movie, it was a HUGE FLOP.
So while I agree in part with something (I assume) I read in that article–that most nerds would rather d/l the movie for free than pay for it–I think part of it is also that these incredibly vocal nerds on the internet are actually a really, really small number of people.
After I first read that Scott Pilgrim article, I was thinking about numbers.
I realized that on the internet, if you get three million people to agree to something, those are mind-numbingly high numbers. It’s probably impossible to get three million people on the internet to agree that bacon is good, or that food is useful.
But if only three million people go see your movie, it was a HUGE FLOP.
So while I agree in part with something (I assume) I read in that article–that most nerds would rather d/l the movie for free than pay for it–I think part of it is also that these incredibly vocal nerds on the internet are actually a really, really small number of people.