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After Monty Python Goes YouTube, Big Jump In DVD Sales
An anonymous reader writes "Apparently it with the release of all of Monty Python's material on YouTube, their sales have blown through the roof on Amazon.com. It is too bad there isn't any proper news article about this, but I think it bodes well for those who champion free content. More importantly, it forces the MPAA's feet into their mouths." Not every performer (or group of performers) has the decades-strong appeal of Monty Python, but this is a great thing to see. The linked article claims that the sales increase in the Python DVDs is 23,000 percent; there are probably some other ways to figure the numbers, but a big increase is easy to see.
But was it an increase in African or European DVD sales?
it forces the MPAA's feet into their mouths.
No it doesn't!
for every Monty Python movie there's two dozen films the quality of "Glitter", "The Hottie and the Nottie" and "The Postman".
No there aren't!
There's no way it would improve their average sales to have those actual films previewable on YouTube.
It would too!
They're much better off with a thumbnail view of the clamshell case.
They would most certainly not!
I'm trying to picture an MPAAer with foot in mouth and head in ass. It looks very painful.
Remember RFC 873!
Oh look, this isn't an argument. It's just contradiction.
I don't care why you're posting AC
No it's not.
I'm trying to picture an MPAAer with foot in mouth and head in ass. It looks very painful.
It bears a strikingly similar appearance to the Minister of Silly Walks... or maybe a Mason.
"Mum? There's a dead record label on the landing!"
"Oh yeah? Whats his diocese?"
"I dunno, looked rather Warner Music Group to me..."
Python: 'And then suddenly you have a language which says "we're all stuck with whatever the whiniest coder wants".'
Compared to the quality of most Monty Python releases (I'm looking at you Life of Brian in Particular) YouTube is a step up in compression, sound and packaging.
The real reason is that these Monty Python videos from almost 40 years ago have the same production quality as the shaky cam crap people are putting up on youtube, except with better writing.
These people don't know what they're buying. They think they're buying some thumb typing monkey's home videos from last week.
The RIAA already said that people are buying the DVDs only to pirate them. Don't you see, more sales = more piracy.
If pirates couldn't buy the DVDs they couldn't pirate them or upload them to YouTube.
Stop all sales of DVDs. Stop production of DVDs. Stop breathing!!
You came here for an argument? I'm afraid this is abuse. Now go fuck yourself.
Just callin' it like I see it.
IANAL, so YMMV, but AFAIK it was. HTH.
Monty Python, for one, doesn't make any sense. A movie, you watch once, and you say "I've seen that movie, too" and that's the end of it (unless there's a lot of titties). With MP, you watch it, watch it, watch it (still doesn't make sense so get real stoned), then it starts to be pretty damn funny. The Three Stooges are the same way. Or so it is as I remember back when getting stoned was like logging into slashdot (which you see, I am not doing -- haunts and so on).
Hmmm... now I think I understand why my brand new software would sell #DIV/0 times better this year than last year...
You just got troll'd!
4-dimensional inside-out Klein bottle Ouroboros ;-)
Colorless green Cthulhu waits dreaming furiously.
I am shocked an appalled by the malicious free capitalism that the Monty Python troupe has exhibited by making their skits free on YouTube without having consumers purchase them first. This is in clear violation of the principles of marketing and I will do everything within my power to see this effort is sacked.
Signed
Cary Sherman, President of RIAA (Mrs.)
You got something against denatonium benzoate?
No no, he's not dead, he's restin'! Remarkable record label, the Warner Music Group, idn'it, ay? Beautiful plumage!
Actually, he said it tastes as if it uses water from the Hudson river. Anything after that can only be an improvement, denatonium benzoate and the sceptic tank included included.
What's a "sceptic tank"? An armored military vehicle which insists that absolute knowledge of the truth is impossible?
And you have to be very good to get something on TV.
Good Lord, man. Have you ever watched TV in your entire life?
The Postman was a cool movie. It did help to have already read the book though. How many people who hated the movie have read the book?
Tom Petty as the balloon man? Don't get much cooler...
So essentially what you're saying is that it's the perfect accompaniment for a chocolate frog?
That's it, the internet must be stopped.
Actually I wasn't joking. The VHS and DVD of Life of Brian is like watching a 20 year old VHS transfer underwater.
What are you talking about? VCRs and DVD players don't even work underw... ooooh, I see.
And the bear is even more confused about the situation, I'm sure.
very VERY carefully...
I am not stubborn. I am right!
You, Sir, are apparently equipped with a sense of humour akin to a sloth that just went through the grandad's secret opium stash.
Monty Python was and remains a timeless work of satiric and absurd comedy, regardless if it is in written or in acted form.
In the future, I'd recommend that you stick with such comedic shows such as "The Friends", "The American Pie" series of films and "Collected and Abridged Works of Judd Apatow" connect-the-dots-and-paint-by-numbers educational books.
Such arrangements should keep us all far happier and in better mood.
Oh, and one last thing...
SOD OFF!
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens