FanLib founder goes after amateur moviemakers.

[stewardess]

From moviemaker.com, dated October 21, 2008.

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[scarah2]

120 minute rickroll y/y?

[stewardess]

Good lord. I missed Singer identifying with P.T. Barnum.

[stewardess]

I hate them with a fiery passion. I used to just think they were jerks. Now I think they're destructive jerks.

[stewardess]

They seem to have operated it as they did their FanLib corporate sponsored gigs for The L-Word and so on. Which brings up something interesting.

Although FanLib folded, the nuts and bolts of the business, the my2centences "crowd writing" software, is still their property. It makes me wonder if they wanted to dump the name FanLib, since that was permanently associated with their failed fanfic venture, and continue on under another name. I've been wondering about this since they closed the FanLib website.

FanLib getting into amateur moviemaking is not wholly a surprise, considering one of FanLib's moves towards the end was to host fan vids.

[mirabile_dictu]

My god, they never give up. They're like cockroaches -- can survive anything.

[stewardess]

Who is still giving these people money!???!?!?

[half_elf_lost]

I think of them as one of those hard-to-get-rid-of infections.

Let's hope the film communities they're courting know about Fanlib.

[stewardess]

It makes me ill, because Singer could probably help amateur moviemakers legitimately -- with funding.

But no doubt Singer sees what he's doing as "help."

[ealbiest]

Cockroaches sounds like the perfect metaphor. What surprises me there, is not some avid idiot wanting to make money out of something he does not understand - but the same idiot trying the same trick again! Maybe in his world free and voluntary and shared and social just do not exist?

[stewardess]

I was saying in a comment above that the FanLib founders may have closed down the business just to get rid of the tainted name. And now they are continuing on in other guises.

[stewardess]

Unfortunately, I bet they think they learned something. What they learned is that they need to exploit something more profitable than fanfiction.