Free Monty Python Videos Lead to 23,000% DVD Sale Increase
Found on Slashfilm on Saturday, 24 January 2009
With this news, it seems their "crazy plan" was a success - and why wouldn't it be? After all, most of their sketch material is tailor made for the typical Youtube viewer, and it's not as if they would have been better served by a traditional television marketing campaign.
Could it be, despite all of the RIAA and MPAA's clamoring about piracy killing their business, that free and less restrictive content is actually the answer to their woes?
Treating your consumers like criminals may not be the best way to convince them to buy your shit. Just sayin.
The RIAA and MPAA have been lying right from the start and everybody knew because it was so obvious. False statements, numbers which just didn't add up, faked statistics and not to forget the lawsuits against people who never could have shared files (like dead people).