14 DAY TRIAL // YouTube is now offering full-length movies after the creators of Four Eyed Monsters agreed to share their creations with other Internet users. The 71-minute movie is the result of a partnership between YouTube and the two producers, Arin Crumley and Susan Buice, and is available for free for only one week. The video recorded no less than 227,687 with 1819 comments and was rated as favorite for 1539 times. Obviously, it is a hit and you're probably asking what this film is about? "It's about our lives. Being alone in a city, wanting to be in a relationship but feeling there are no good ways to start a connection and then breaking out of a rut, jumping feet first into something deeper and crazier than either of us expected," the two producers explain.
"Crumley and Buice are a great example of a new era of artists using the Internet to take the distribution of their work into their own hands. And as you can see from fan interviews, the two aren't interested in using new technologies only for themselves - they want to see all artists empowered. Now, as YouTube partners, Four Eyed Monsters are able to share their full-length, forward-thinking creative vision with you," YouTube added.
This is an interesting YouTube idea because the full-length movies available for a certain period of time might boost the service's traffic and attract new visitors to the page. The other video sharing service owned by Google, Google Video, was involved in something similar after full-length movies were published on the official page. However, these clips were not quite legal and were published on Google Video using some simple tricks: the names of the movies were written backwards so the company's officials were not able to discover them. Meanwhile, the visitors were able to view Box-Office movies such as The Butterfly Effect and Crank.