Truly, what is up with this... syfy and the great drones movie steal...

Sometimes, I just can't fathom where we are heading as a society... I don't know how many of you know about the movie drones, it was written by two very talented men, Ben Acker and Ben Blacker and it was directed by two equally talented people, Amber Benson and Adam Busch. The movie happens to be low budget but that means nothing when it comes to the entertainment part. All of the parties involved in making the film were very proud to have it shown at the Slamdance film festival and they have been happily promoting the film since it's inception. Now for the upsetting part... The Syfy channel, who gladly ran a trailer for the movie on it's website, has now announced the arrival of a new series on their channel... the problem... it is a complete rip off of the drones movie. This to me is a complete disgrace. I cannot believe that in this day and age, talented people can go out and make a wonderful movie and a big company like Syfy can come in and steal their idea, turn it into a television series and not even ask the original creators permission to do so! How crazy is this? What kind of a message are they sending? I thought that this was a free country and that creative people such as Amber Benson and Adam Busch could go out, do a movie, promote said movie and be happy about it. No, guess I was wrong... what happens in the "real world" is, they shoot the movie, promote it, are happy about it's showing and then get rocked by finding out that someone stole their idea and are about to promote it as their original idea. Well, Amber and Adam, Ben and Ben, we all know who came up with this idea and it was not the Syfy channel. What a crazy world we live in.

This movie is not mine, nor did I have anything to do with it, however, I feel compelled to announce to anyone who will read that I will no longer support a channel and it's affiliates who would promote something as original content when they know full well that it is not original at all. What kind of a company allows a trailer to be played on their site and then turns around and steals the whole concept for themeselves?? If this movie had been on a bigger scale, the people involved would have definitely been informed of this situation and had a say in how things would be handled. If this was a major motion picture the writers would have had a say in the series. It is a shame that an organization such as Syfy has to steal an idea from people just trying to get their ideas and their work out there. I am very diquieted by this news and I just hope to get the word out there. Let's all stand together and fight this injustice....