It’s funny how long it is taking for some contents to become online globally. It first happened to music, and it has been happening to film since the Internet connections had enough coverage and speed to allow Peer2Peer systems to include movies in their listings.

It is so hard for film industry to get all the rights from the different creative and corporate branches involved. But there are also so many International legislations and different author rights recognitions, that global distribution sites for movies seems still very far for the Major Studios Products.

The bad thing is they are losing important opportunities and time to change peoples’ habits of how to watch movies online. Piracy has been growing in exchange and has been convincing people that they don’t have to pay for this kind of contents.

Away from the legal, illegal and allegal debate, there is other film industry branch that is trying to make its space and beat Piracy, thanks to a easier and more liberal way of distribution. This is the Independent film industry.

All over the world new sites are being launched to distribute Indie films specifically. For example, in Spain there is a website called Filmin, that distributes indie films bought by some of the leading Independent Distributors in the country. In the U.S. there is Indieflix. And there are many others with this same positioning.

These sites are based in the following premise: Independent  movies are hard to find online even in those countries where piracy is killing the film sector. So this is a great way to make this products available to the interested consumers, and yet paying what is owed to get to them.

Also, the online distribution allows many movies to be seen at all. As some small movies are not able to get distribution agreements to launch in movie theaters. So probably the online media is the only solution for them to see the light one day.

Online legal distribution of films is a reality that is still in its expansion process Internationally, but we hope for the own sake of the Major Studios, to be able to clear all the obstacles that don’t let them establish this kind of distribution globally. Because it is getting too late, and the later they get there, the worst will it be.