Tonnerre de Brest: Ken Loach on YouTube.

May 23, 2010

Ken Loach on YouTube.

Director Ken Loach has open a Channel in YouTube offering all his movies. It was intended to fight piracy but in my opinion, he is using a fine tool to reach many potential viewers. I'm reducing my TV exposition to a minimum and widening my internet search for audiovisual entertainment and is no secret that I found YouTube appealing. Most of my post has YouTube or similar websites videos.

I own a DVD copy (and a VHS copy, but this doesn't count since I don't have a VCR) of Riff-Raff but I sure would rather watch it on my Computer via YouTube than having to go, find it and use it in my TV. I think many people feel like that. Disks in any format are so 20th century and we are looking forward.

I hope Loach's option would be followed by other artist and help consider YouTube and many other places like that as they really are, great showcases to promote their creations.

But not everything is perfect. Today's post would be about Riff-Raff but they have to remove it from YouTube. The very director that produced his own movie has no right about broadcasting it.

Here is the note explaining it:

Unfortunately we are having more issues with other rights holders. Temporarily we have had to remove riff raff and geobloack The Navigators for the UK. We are working hard on trying to resolve this.

Well, it is a pity.

You can go to his YouTube Channel and subscribe