Moore Approves Fahrenheit 9/11 Downloads

13.7BillionYears writes "The Sunday Herald reports that Michael Moore has expressed his approval of Fahrenheit 9/11 being downloaded through networks like BitTorrent and eDonkey2000. He also champions a very Lessig-esque outlook in his reasoning. Quentin Tarantino's earlier support for such practices is also mentioned. Meanwhile, Lion's Gate says it has no plans to oppose the practice."

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Past week?

[vjlen]

Superman 2 blew it out of the water in a single day.

Whoops

[vjlen]

That's Spiderman 2.

Damn broken coffeemaker.

Re:My Rebuttal to Moore's Movie

[Distinguished Hero]

Wow, this comment is sinking fast. Smells of moderation abuse.

Yeah. :(

Re:Let's call Leftism for what it is

[Loundry]

Well I'm not the Original Poster but I'd say using 3rd world labor for pennies on the hour to make clothes would be a good example of "ruining peoples lives". Many American and European corporations do just that.

That's called an example. How do you measure "ruining people's lives"? Speak in terms of units.

I'd say strip mining for coal or logging without replacing trees is a good example of ruining the environment.

That's called an example. How do you measure "ruining the environment"? Speak in terms of units.

If you are looking for someone to define a line as to what is "too far" in either circumstance, you'll be disappointed to find that the world is not a black and white place and that each case must be looked at individually to find out.

Are you admitting here that these things can not be measured? Well, if that's so, then that is precisely why I don't believe in them and why I reject Leftist philosophy! I maintain: if it exists, we can measure it. If we can't measure it, then I don't believe it.

How much does God weigh? Oh, you can't measure God?

Re:Not a documentary

[bonkedproducer]

Ok, let's start with a specific case, because it only took me about 30 seconds to find one:

1. The Florida Election Results Ruined by Fox News Reports.

From the film:
NARRATOR: Did the last four years not really happen? Look, there's Ben Affleck. He's often in my dreams. And the taxi driver guy. He was there too. And little Stevie Wonder, he seemed so happy, like a miracle had taken place. Was it a dream? Or was it real? It was election night 2000 and everything seemed to be going as planned.

Series of news clips: In New York, Al Gore is our projected winner. / The Garden State is green for Gore. / We project that Mr. Gore is the winner in Delaware. This state has voted with the winner in... / (Tom Brokaw interrupts) Mike, you know I wouldn't do this if it weren't big: Florida goes for Al Gore. / CNN announces that we call Florida in the Al Gore column.

NARRATOR: Then something called the Fox News Channel called the election in favor of the other guy.

BRIT HUME: Sorry to interrupt you; Fox News now projects George W. Bush the winner in Florida and thus it appears the winner of the Presidency of the United States.

NARRATOR: All of a sudden the other networks said, "Hey, if Fox said it, it must be true."

Ok, so Micky Moore is all about the truth right, and Bush is a liar because we haven't found the stockpiles of WMDs in Iraq. (Remember being given incorrect facts and believing the source as a fact makes you a liar in Moore and camp's books.) Let's watch Moore quickly become a LIAR:

[Source]
NBC called Florida for Gore at 7:49:40 p.m., Eastern Time. This was 10 minutes before polls closed in the Florida panhandle. Thirty seconds later, CBS called Florida for Gore. And at 7:52 p.m., Fox called Florida for Gore. Moore never lets the audience know that Fox was among the networks which made the error of calling Florida for Gore prematurely. Then at 8:02 p.m., ABC called Florida for Gore. Only ABC had waited until the Florida polls were closed....

At 10:00 p.m., which network took the lead in retracting the premature Florida result? The first retracting network was CBS, not Fox.

Over four hours later, at 2:16 a.m., Fox projected Bush as the Florida winner, as did all the other networks by 2:20 a.m.

There's just one quick example, check out the source above for plenty more examples of what a pompus twisted politico Moore is with plenty more independant sources to rebuff almost every single thing that Moore has ever put to celluloid. I'm sorry I don't think that corporation's have a need or demand to guarentee an unskilled laborer a job, I don't think that Government should be playing daddy to us, and I don't think that anyone should have a right to bitch about their station in life because someone else was successful enough to have a bigger bank account than you. Michael is a liar and that is something I think everyone has a moral obligation not to be - and no I don't support Bush, my vote will be cast for Michael Badnarik and I hope that most of you here will be casting votes with your hearts not with the idea of the lesser of two evils.