Monty Python Puts Free Videos Online, Sells 23,000% More DVDs (Take that, RIAA)

Gizmodo ^ | Jan 23 2009 | Adam Frucci

[E. Pluribus Unum]

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.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

FTFA:

"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."

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

I will not comment on this thread as it is far too silly!

[JRios1968]

Now THAT is silly!

[Castigar]

The Ministry of Silly Threads?

[nina0113]

Baen Books does the same thing:

www.baen.com.

The “Free Library” with samples of their authors’ work is on the lefthand side. You can download entire books for free. I dislike reading books online, so if I like the way a book’s going, I’ll go buy the paperback rather than read the whole thing for free on a screen.

[muleskinner]

Spam this silly thread! Spam, wonderful spam!

[xcamel]

[dfwgator]

I already purchased the DVDs, but it’s still convenient to simply search for a sketch on YouTube and view it.

[MarineBrat]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZlBUglE6Hc

Ministry of silly walks.

[KevinDavis]

Oh get on with it...

[Charles Henrickson]

Link (not Spam):

http://www.youtube.com/montypython

[SengirV]

Do you have anything without spam in it?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Ping.

[Charles Henrickson]

We've launched our own Monty Python channel on YouTube.

Guaranteed to break the ice at parties.

[kevkrom]

Nice YouTube channel, squire. Be a shame if someone were to set fire to it.

[mouse_35]

Well, there’s spam egg sausage and spam, that’s not got much spam in it.

[ShadowAce]

[MediaMole]

Well, there’s spam egg sausage and spam, that’s not got much spam in it.

[BlueMondaySkipper]

I think all right-thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary, decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired.

I'm certainly not, and I'm sick and tired of being told that I am.