Comments on: The ambivalence of backing a successful Kickstarter project http://laughingmeme.org/2012/06/26/the-ambivalence-of-backing-a-successful-kickstarter-project/ Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 28 Apr 2013 16:39:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Kellan http://laughingmeme.org/2012/06/26/the-ambivalence-of-backing-a-successful-kickstarter-project/comment-page-1/#comment-1472316 Kellan Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:36:28 +0000 http://laughingmeme.org/?p=5114#comment-1472316 Whether or not they’ve violated the letter of a promise is orthogonal to whether or not they’ve violated a trust.

It sucks that the legacy Academy system works that way, but it also sucks that I thought this film was being produced over here participating in a new community based system with us as (very minor) collaborators, and turns out we’re actually just not terribly valuable customers.

And no, neither of the online screening times worked for me.

]]> By: Andy Baio http://laughingmeme.org/2012/06/26/the-ambivalence-of-backing-a-successful-kickstarter-project/comment-page-1/#comment-1471905 Andy Baio Tue, 26 Jun 2012 15:38:02 +0000 http://laughingmeme.org/?p=5114#comment-1471905 If they offered the digital download or DVD before a theatrical release, it wouldn’t qualify for an Academy Award and would make it impossible to get decent distribution. They promised backers will still get the DVD and digital download before anybody else does, and they haven’t violated that promise. Backers will have a copy of the film before anybody in the world.

The frustration stems from backers not being able to SEE it before anyone else, but that’s the reality of film distribution. Even Indie Game: The Movie, which bypassed all traditional distributors, couldn’t send out digital downloads until it’d hit the festival circuit, because it would’ve been disqualified from Sundance if they’d showed it to backers first or screened in theaters.

I thought it was impressive the Ai Wei producers managed to get their distributor to agree to the online screenings last month for backers only. Did you catch either of them?

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