Steal This Film
In fighting file sharing, the entertainment industry is fighting the fundamental structure of the Internet. Steal This Film is a film series documenting the movement against intellectual property and was a talking point in the British Documentary Festival. Part One, produced in Sweden and released in 2006, takes account of the prominent players in the Swedish piracy culture: The Pirate Bay, Piratbyran, and the Pirate Party.
This film includes a critical analysis of an alleged regulatory capture performed by the Hollywood film industry to leverage economic sanctions by the United States government on Sweden through the WTO. Alleged aims included the application of pressure to Swedish police into conducting a search and seizure against Swedish law for the purpose of disrupting The Pirate Bay’s BitTorrent tracker.
Part One
Part Two
I wont loose any sleep over the financial loss Hollywood take because of piracy. Hollywood and fat pockets go hand in hand. I live in California, and when you meet or see someone that has anything to do with the industry, the first thing thats obvious is they got money.
So what if they take a 20%-30% loss, or whatever it is. Get use to dining in more appropriate restaurants rather than dropping $500 on one plate of food. It's f****** ridiculous how much these Hollywood snobs spend. I seen an add in an upscale local magazine the other day that was offering a car wax while you relax on their beach front deck for a hour and have a cocktail. All that for a mere $450-$650. WTF???
So f*** them and their ridiculous spending habits. On the other hand, there are some very talented music artists, who refuse to sign with a major label and do all their own work. Those artists I will support, and if i'm going to steal their music, i'll steal it from the record store myself so at least the artist still gets paid for it. Not really, but in my younger years most definitely. But major labels, **** em'.. keep em' coming on the Bit Torrent my Swedish friends!!
woot woot, go go Sweden, the part about the US trade sanctions threat is amazing.
The true counterculturist would pay $21.95 to watch this in a cineplex and eat junk food. I’m not that committed. But revolutions have to come back around someday.
What’s up with the weird subliminal messages that keep flashing mid screen?
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I just wanted to whine some more about how they flash every sentence word for word which is really exhausting for me some how.
I must stop watching movies owned by greedy Hollywood industry
What I find ironic about the Hollywood types that are complaining about their stolen movies is that the great majority are left wing to the point of being socialist and are always promoting some ‘take from one person and give to the other’ scheme and wonder why many people don’t like their ideas. Other people’s money has never stopped their way of life.
It seams that when they are on the ‘losing’ side of the equation, it is a different story.