{"id":4726,"date":"2009-09-08T20:43:56","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T00:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2009\/09\/08\/kevin-smith-says-pirates-lead-to-converts\/"},"modified":"2009-09-08T20:43:56","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T00:43:56","slug":"kevin-smith-says-pirates-lead-to-converts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2009\/09\/08\/kevin-smith-says-pirates-lead-to-converts\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Smith Says Pirates Lead To Converts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"posterous_bookmarklet_entry\"> Mike Masnick at Techdirt <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20090908\/0132166123.shtml\">notes how<\/a> director Kevin Smith disclosed his thoughts on piracy during a recent 24-hour Twitterthon question-and-answer session with fans.    <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p>  Smith seems to have the whole CwF+RtB thing down cold &#8212; and has for many years.  But, given all of that, I had no idea what his opinion was on the question of &#8220;piracy.&#8221;  While he notes, at one point, that Disney will own the rights to his movies forever, someone asks &#8220;How much money do you think your projects have lost to piracy?&#8221; to which <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ThatKevinSmith\/statuses\/3821515646\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kevin responds<\/a>:  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>  See, I think &#8220;How many more converts did I get from piracy?&#8221;  <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  Bingo.  The smart creator these days looks to use &#8220;piracy&#8221; to his advantage.  Smith has done that and more.    <\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"posterous_quote_citation\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20090908\/0132166123.shtml\">techdirt.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size:10px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\">Posted via web<\/a>   from <a href=\"http:\/\/mathewingram.posterous.com\/kevin-smith-says-pirates-lead-to-converts\">mathewingram&#8217;s posterous<\/a>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Masnick at Techdirt notes how director Kevin Smith disclosed his thoughts on piracy during a recent 24-hour Twitterthon question-and-answer session with fans. Smith seems to have the whole CwF+RtB thing down cold &#8212; and has for many years. But, given all of that, I had no idea what his opinion was on the question &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2009\/09\/08\/kevin-smith-says-pirates-lead-to-converts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kevin Smith Says Pirates Lead To Converts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}