Legal pirating of creative commons, crowd funded media projects

All projects on PirateMyfilm are CreativeCommons licensed unless otherwise stipulated by project owners. Dividends are distributed to shareholders by project owners at their discretion.

Getting started: Click on 'Need Money' list a project during any stage of development, specifying the funds needed and various details. The system automatically creates enough shares to meet the funding request and then makes these shares available for reservation to all members. All shares are priced at $5. All shareholders receive a credit on the finished project and are eligible for cash dividends distributed by project owners at their discretion.

PMF 'Yellow Lights' a project when reservations have reached close to 100% of a project's funding requirement. When the Yellow Light goes on, owners of projects can no longer make changes to their projects and members cannot cancel reservations, but members may initiate or increase share reservations (per member restrictions).

24 hours later, the project automatically gets a 'Green Light' and no more share reservations are accepted. A 'payment window' is opened, and an email is sent to shareholders telling them how to pay for their shares.

Members have 2 days to pay for their shares. After 2 days the first payment window closes while a second payment window is automatically opened (and a new email is sent out). Any members who did not pay for their shares during the first window have another chance to pay, but their reservation has been moved to the end of the queue and there is a risk that others waiting in the queue ('standby') may obtain shares ahead of them.

This process is repeated 2 days later when a third payment window is opened. After which, if there are still shares unaccounted for, the PMF Fund may step in and buy them.

Note: Members who don't pay for their shares are marked as 'plank' and forced to the back of the queue in subsequent share offerings different projects.

Note: Members who don't pay for their shares are marked as 'plank' and forced to the back of the queue in subsequent share offerings.

Note: Standby orders become valid when new (or existing) shares become available, or when a member fails to pay for shares when a payment window opens.

Before a project gets a Yellow light:

1. members may add or cancel share reservations in any project at any time (per their membership restrictions).
2. Producers may add or subtract the number of shares on offer in a project.
3. Producers may increase or decrease the dividends on offer (if any). Typically dividends are not determined or paid out until after a project is finished and uploaded to the Internet and ad revenues begin to be generated for the owner of the project. But owners may indicated an estimated future dividend payout when listing a project as a way to attract share buyers.

PMF membership restrictions refer to:

1. the number of projects listed
2. the number of shares offered in each project
3. The number of other member's projects members can reserve shares in
4. The number of shares members can reserve in other member's projects

Note: If the demand for project's shares exceeds the shares on offer, the system automatically increases the number of shares an owner may offer (to match the demand). The owner then has the option of offering these additional shares

Note: Reservations in projects made by PMF Premium Members (Platinum and Gold for example) are junior to those of the PMF Fund, but senior to any reservations made by members with less status.

Payment Procedure For Greenlit Projects: 

1. The project owner links a paypal email address to the project. This will be the address that all payments will go to. (Note to Project Owners: Make sure your paypal limits are set high enough to accept the funds you are raising for your project). A 'payment window' automatically opens up and emails are sent to all the users to pay for their shares.
2. Members will see a paypal button and some information regarding what shares they have, what are outstanding, and what they are about to pay for after they login and click on the project page of the green lit project.
3. Click on the paypal button. The paypal button brings the user to the paypal site,The user then goes through the standard paypal payment process and the money goes to the project owner's paypal account (via the email address entered when creating the project).
4. A unique code is also passed to paypal that appears on the payment receipt that the producer sees. This code is used by the producer in the next step.
5. The producer logs into PMF and goes to the project page, where they can see a list of users who are due to pay for shares in the current window. It shows the username and the amount they are due to pay. It also shows the unique code that was passed through to paypal earlier on. The producer matches up the code in the receipt to this code, and then clicks "Mark as Paid" for that user. The system updates the project funding variables and the producer can then see how much money has actually been collected. This process continues for all the users who are in this payment window.
6. When a window is open/closed or a payment has been verified by a producer, an email is sent to the associated user.
7. After 2 days, the payment window closes, emails are sent to members who have paid, any members who have not paid get pushed to the back of the payment queue, and new emails are sent out repeating the payment process.
8. After 2 days, the new payment window closes and the process is repeated opening up a second payment window.
9. After another 2 days, the final payment window is closed and an email is sent to the PMF Fund to buy any outstanding shares (this request will appear in a new section in the admin part of the site, where the admin user can accept or deny to buy out the shares).

Disclaimer: PirateMyfilim Ltd. takes zero responsibility for funds collected, projects, and downloads related to projects. Producers are not contractually obligated to make good on funds, or to produce projects or make downloads available. Share buyers assume 100% of the risk for funding,

It's Time To Go On The Offensive For Freedom Of Speech

• It must be made absolutely clear that the copyright monopoly does not extend to what an ordinary person can do with ordinary equipment in their home and spare time; it regulates commercial, intent-to-profit activity only. Specifically, file sharing is always legal.
• Free sampling. There must be exceptions that make it legal to create mashups and remixes. Quotation rights, like those that exist for text, must be extended to sound and video.
• Digital Restrictions Management should preferably be outlawed, as it is a type of fraud nullifying consumer and citizen rights, but at least, it must always be legal to circumvent.
• The baseline commercial copyright monopoly is shortened to a reasonable five years from publication, extendable to twenty years through registration of the work in a copyright monopoly database.
• The public domain must be strengthened.
• Net neutrality must be guaranteed.
• Levies on blank media are outlawed.
• Overall, it must always be clear where the line goes; "the courts will sort it out" areas are not acceptable and tantamount to outlawing.

See Also: http://ycombinator.com/rfs9.html