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Lately, all my blog posts have been a little more about the industry instead of the craft. The reason for this is the urgency for our generation to really understand that we are in the middle of a drastic change. The sooner we understand how to deal with all the change that comes from a transition, from second wave to third wave civilization, the sooner we can start building our future. When I talk about a “wave”, I am referring to AlvinToffler’s Wave Theory.

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Subsequently, we need to understand that from now on, the industry will not be just about mass manufacturing and distribution, but it will be based on knowledge as well. We have come to a point where currency in not even the only form of payment anymore. Content creators out there are selling their content for “tweets” or “likes”, and we are experiencing the beginning of The Social Media Revolution.

The Social Media Revolution is defined by that moment in the time continuum where humanity’s use of technology opened up the opportunity to inter-communicate. By doing so, we have expanded our voices throughout the globe and achieved things that our forefathers could only dream of. Society finally has the ability to have a collective voice. A voice that has the power to stop animal abuse; to fight for human rights. A voice whose power has stopped laws from passing and  taken down governments. This is our voice, and we need to learn how to use it. Some people are already doing great things with this voice, while others resist the change, a change that is inevitably going to happen.

Most resistors to this change are those who belong strictly to the second wave. These industry dinosaurs are the generation of workaholics and like such, they simply refuse to stop working. This affects the working cycle tremendously, especially in our transition time. We now face two different generations trying to run the world in two completely different ways, and this, my friends, is what all this chaos is all about.

Luckily, there is no cheating nature, and we are getting closer to our shining moment. Be prepared, because change is coming; and the more you know about it, the wealthier you will be.

New Laws for a New Wave

When it comes to a new wave of technology, economy and society, it is important to understand that we are in the middle of a drastic change. Since we are the new generation of filmmakers, we are going to be dealing with a vast amount of new problems that our predecessors did not have to encounter. Technology is evolving in a rate faster than the blink of an eye, and with it comes a great deal of new problems and new solutions.

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The Internet is an integral part of today’s film industry and its pros surpass its pros. However, there are still new problems that need to be solved and one of them is Internet piracy. A pioneer in this subject is David Puttnam, the U.K’s Film Distributors’ Association president. Puttnam has made rigorous statements supporting a campaign to “ approach website enforcement against online piracy to help protect distributors and right owners..."

"A vital step for the technology sector is to signpost legitimate search options far more clearly and to delete links to sites that promote illegally sourced content," Puttnam said in a speech scheduled to be delivered Tuesday in the British capital to a gathered audience of movie industry reps" as reported by The Hollywood Reporter.

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In this proposal, Puttnam emphasizes in the importance of enforcing cyber law and removing illegal links from the World Wide Web. This is an extremely important step to take for us since in little to no time, it will be our content out there getting stolen. In order to protect our intellectual property and distributors from piracy, we do have to act on this matter.

People are aware of such links, and they are also aware of torrents and other file sharing routes that make the online piracy process very simple. The down side to this is that at the rate of piracy that we are going, unless we act on this matter, our films will be out there for free and a film career will not be enough to support a lifestyle.