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Who Profits from Piracy? Ellen Seidler talks to NPR

Ellen Seidler NPR

This isn’t one of those stories about a big Hollywood company suing a big Silicon Valley company for copyright infringement.  This is about a struggling independent filmmaker just trying to make a living doing the work she loves.

Ellen Seidler released And Then Came Lola this spring. Seidler describes her film as a “lesbian romantic comedy.” In the tradition of many independent filmmakers, Seidler and her co-director Megan Siler used $250,000 of their own money and paid for the feature through personal loans, refinancing and credit cards.

 

Ellen Seidler on NPR

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Stopping Piracy by Following the Money Trail

Follow the money

Follow the money

The idea of targeting websites financially goes back as far as there has been money changing hands on the Internet. However, the more recent history of it began when director Ellen Seidler launched the site PopUpPirates.com in 2010 (previous coverage), where she began to highlight many of the companies whose ads ran next to pirate downloads of her content.

(Note: Seidler now does most of her blogging at Vox Indie.)

Though Seidler began to receive some significant media attention, it wouldn’t be until December 2011 that the idea would take the national stage.

 

 

 

Full article here at Plagiarism Today