posted 01-16-2002 14:21
Before someone bitches about the films not being there ... a snippet from the FAQ3.
"Why are there no streaming clips or full length versions of the films on your site? Or on one of those popular short film broadcast web sites?"
There may be one day, but the technology isn't there yet for everybody. It's hard enough to make a film look decent on video tape, and these streaming broadcasts are often reduced to thumbnail sized, pixelated slide shows. Right now there are too many different operating systems and too many variables with internet image and sound quality that usually make for a very poor viewing experience. Films belong on the big screen and should not be compressed into blotchy little stuttering rectangles on computer screens.
Don has turned down all web-streaming offers, with no current plans in that area. Nevertheless, the net seems to be turning into a second television set and it seems inevitable that all media will be hopping around the web one day.
In fact, there are already a handful of naughty bootlegged digital versions of some of our films floating around on the web, but they only serve to illustrate our point cuz they look and sound really awful.
If we wanted the films on the internet, they'd be at bitterfilms.com for free. Maybe some day, but not too soon.
4.
"I have come across some of these films for sale on video around the net. They're not Spike and Mike tapes - what gives?"
These are bootlegged copies of the shorts, or copies of the shorts sold on 'short film compilations' by weasel people who think that because they claim 'non profit' they have the right to violate copyrights.
They will all burn in a smokey gurgling hell. It will not be pretty. Their eyes will go, gooooosh and their hair will be irritated with the wrong kind of shampoo and they will make sad pouting faces with their little mouths forming perfect O's (as in, wooooooo!) because their skin will be torn into little cracker chunks by big angry bees and dogs who appear out of mysterious smelly vapors. "Waaaaah!!" they will say! "Waaaaaa, I should not have bootlegged Don's films and now Jesus is kicking my ass!"
We can more or less guarantee that you are throwing your money away; the 10th-generation quality of these tapes is often dismal.