Monty Python Free Vids Leads To DVD Sales

[WRXWagon2112]

This is why you give stuff away on the internet:

Monty Python started a YouTube channel with tons of their sketches streaming for free. The included links to their DVDs at Amazon. The result was a whopping 23,000% increase in sales.

For 3 years you YouTubers have been ripping us off, taking tens of thousands of our videos and putting them on YouTube. Now the tables are turned. It's time for us to take matters into our own hands.

We know who you are, we know where you live and we could come after you in ways too horrible to tell. But being the extraordinarily nice chaps we are, we've figured a better way to get our own back: We've launched our own Monty Python channel on YouTube.

No more of those crap quality videos you've been posting. We're giving you the real thing - HQ videos delivered straight from our vault.

What's more, we're taking our most viewed clips and uploading brand new HQ versions. And what's even more, we're letting you see absolutely everything for free. So there!

But we want something in return.

None of your driveling, mindless comments. Instead, we want you to click on the links, buy our movies & TV shows and soften our pain and disgust at being ripped off all these years.

Are you paying attention, MPAA and RIAA? A controlled release of free material keeps people from resorting to piracy and keeps them in your controlled ecosphere, which can include, yes, ways for fans to give you money. But when you're a bunch of pricks, people go to The Pirate Bay and think of you as the enemy, and then you don't get any money. Take notes, you idiots. [Mashable via BoingBoing]

--Alan

[snaab]

For what it's worth, I bought myself "The Meaning of Life" this Christmas, unrelated to the YouTube release of HD vids

[Mr Kleen]

this is the way it can work for everybody if the greedy suits will get the hell out of the way.

[complacent]

I'm glad to see some numbers supporting (what i always thought was) common sense.

[schvin]

i like monty python.

[Cereb Daithi]

I'm actually pretty glad to hear this. Its also great so see Monty Python is alive and kicking!