The Red Band Film Company LLC

Torrent site Mininova.org has agreed to join The Red Band Film Company in promoting Pariah Island. Here’s a primer:

Who is Mininova?

Mininova.org is a “torrent” site, a place which allows visitors to download — indirectly — things like movies, music, software, etc. It utilizes a type of peer-to-peer downloading technology called “bittorrent” which dramatically increases the speed of downloading, allowing a person to download entire films in high-def, in relatively short time. This technology has been, until now, the bane of copyright-fanatical organizations like the MPAA and RIAA, who routinely attempt to thwart downloading of materials, claiming copyright “piracy.”

The deal with Red Band will enable Mininova to be the first such downloading site to work directly with a content producer. We at Red Band recognize that downloading sites such as Mininova are a distribution medium, one which can be partnered with in a true participatory arrangement.

With this deal, Mininova gets overnight credibility as a partner of content producers, thereby disproving the notion that such sites are “pirates” seeking only to break copyrights. Mininova gets producer credit on Pariah Island, and their logo will eventually appear on Pariah Island.
In exchange, Pariah Island gets advertising space and other promotional activities on Mininova.org. Just to put this into perspective, Mininova has at any given time about 6 million people accessing files (leechers) and 5 million uploading (seeders). Mininova ranks 86th on the Alexa ranking.