“A week or two before the DVD’s ‘street date’, we jumped 11,000% on the IMDb ‘Moviemeter’ and we were shocked.” With pirates fueling interest in the movie, a member of the team took an unusual step. “Originally, somebody got hold of a promotional screener DVD of ‘Jerome Bixby’s The Man from Earth’, ripped the file and posted the movie online before we knew what was even happening,” Man from Earth director Richard Schenkman informs TorrentFreak. After being produced on a tiny budget, a then little-known independent sci-fi film called “The Man from Earth” turned up on pirate sites, to the surprise of its creators. In 2007, however, a most unusual turn of events showed that piracy could have a magical effect on the success of a movie. Tough action was the only way to defeat it, the suits concluded. .com/stories/3244687-cheech-e-chong-atacam-novamente-dubladogolkes-wernbla. Sharing via BitTorrent was painted as a disease that could kill the movie industry, if it was allowed to take hold. More than a decade ago, Hollywood was struggling to get to grips with the file-sharing phenomenon.
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