Reuter reports the Finnish parody film Star Wreck has boldy gone where no film has gone. It has reached world wide audience of 450 000 viewers. When did the film come out? In less than a month! Embrace the technology and it will embrace you, screw your customers and they will screw you (*ahem* I’m looking at you RIAA and MPAA);

HELSINKI/LONDON (Reuters) – A Finnish spoof of the sci-fi classic “Star Trek” has boldly gone where no feature film has gone before, relying on free distribution over the Internet to reach more than 450,000 viewers in less than a week.
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Finland’s most-viewed film ever is “The Unknown Soldier” (1955) with 2.8 million viewers. To reach the top three, “Star Wreck” would have to surpass 1 million.

Homemade remixes of popular culture have become increasingly popular with the introduction of inexpensive computer software that can replicate expensive recording studios and film sets, coupled with low-cost distribution on the Internet using peer-to-peer technologies such as BitTorrent.