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Steal This Film
SargeantLobes writes "Steal This Film is the first part of a free documentary series about file-sharing. This part focuses on The Pirate Bay, and copyfighters Piratbyran. From their website: "There have been a few documentaries by 'old media' crews who don't understand the net and see peer-to-peer organisation as a threat to their livelihoods. They have no reason to represent the filesharing movement positively. And no capacity to represent it lucidly.""The film is free for you to share, watch on your DVD-player or on your iPod, or show in cinemas." Torrents are available on their website, or watch part one, two, three and four on YouTube."
iPod .mp4 = 152MB .mov = 336MB .iso = 1.43GB
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DVD
this is not my signature.
Mov file - http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3514711/StealThisFilm. Part1.mov . Part1.iPod.m4v . Part1.iso
iPod Video file - http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3514718/StealThisFilm
DVD Image - http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3514722/StealThisFilm
Ooops, of course they are in the website, but it seems to me that just part 1 is available as a torrent: http://www.stealthisfilm.com/torrent/StealThisFilm .Part1.torrent.
Broken how? I just did a search for "William Shatner" that came up right.
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And yet, the page -- which is simply text -- is needlessly generated using javascript, rendering it as a black nothingness for those of us surfing with javascript disabled.
Modern copyright is theft of culture from everyone and it retards the progress of the useful arts and sciences.
Production values isn't what the OP is talking about. He or she is talking about coherent editing, camera work, and story telling, which has been proven time and again to be possible on low or no budget. These guys just don't have the chops to make a decent film.
Dunno, maybe I am just sheltered and don't know the file sharers who would truly qualify as "low income humans".
Yeah, maybe. As it was already said, "low income" is relative. I live in Brazil. I'm not poor - this is also relative: by our standards I'm lower middle-class; by US standards I guess I'm almost a hobo - but I don't have lots of expendable cash.
A great deal of the movies I download ("artsy"/rare/cult flicks, experimental movies, documentaries etc; I'm not that much into big budget movies but I still watch them on occasion) aren't even available for me to buy down here.
"Import", you'll say. Fair enough. Let's see: US$19 for the DVD + US$9 for shipping + US$18 for import taxes (yes, it's that high) = US$46 for a DVD. That's 15% of what I pay for rent (and 1/3 of the Brazilian monthly minimum wage). For a single movie. So yeah, I download a lot, and I still buy used DVDs (and music CDs, videogames etc) off Ebay from time to time. All of them are movies I first downloaded, then saved some money to buy the DVD. I can't afford the luxury to buy a DVD at this price to see for myself if it's any good.
Income is an issue, specially in developing countries.
"I don't kid myself that ... copyright owners are waging some kind of immoral war against me."
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Maybe not you in particular, but the copyright extensions that have gone through since copyright's inception in the US in 1790 seem like a plot against the customers of content creators. Read the below if you don't believe me.
REF:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Act_of_179
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Act_of_190
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Copyri
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono_Copyright
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_C
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