More than one million people are expected to download the pilot episode of
Pioneer One, the new indie sci-fi series by filmmakers
Josh Bernhard and
Bracey Smith which debuted on
Bittorent-powered distribution platform
VODO last Wednesday, with P2P file-sharing giants such as
uTorrent,
Limewire and
The Pirate Bay also pledging their support. As of this post's publication, there are over 19,000 seeders for one torrent of the episode.
It's an exciting vision of how entertainment content will be presented in the future: After all, why spend buckets of money trying to get your show on television when you can circulate it directly among the viewers? Who watches
actual television nowadays, anyway?
Read on...