Artefact 5 interviewed a famous Nottingham director called Chris Cooke, well known for his film ‘One for the Road’ (2004). It presented Chris Cooke with a series of questions about online piracy. The aim of this artefact was to understand his view on online piracy and how he is dealing with the change. This artefact focuses on a local person in Nottingham to get a more personal view.
This artefact provided me with essential information as it not only said why piracy is bad, but it also gave reasons why it was beneficial. I received unexpected answers, which in turn provided me with a different side to the issue of online piracy.
When asked about his view on online piracy, I received a strong view in favour of online piracy. The reasoning behind this was that he said a lot of films that were old or rare have been re-discovered by online piracy. He goes onto say that online piracy has been the main platform for films that would be lost, or films that haven’t been seen for centuries and it enables people to become fans of those films and learn from those films. It also gives an opportunity for those films to be re-released or re-mastered, and ‘piracy is what saved those films.’
The thing that struck me was when Chris mentioned being approached and being sold a pirated DVD of his own film, to which he gave a positive response. He said that he was happy that someone had even wanted to even copy his film and re-sell it and no one had really lost money. He mentions that he made it his priority to make the extras on his DVD have ‘real added value’. My next artefact will look into the future of online programming and piracy.
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