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Steal This Film I (2006) + Steal This Film II (2007) + Trial Edition (2009) - Documentary Films and Anti-Copyright Resources

Steal This Film is a film series documenting the movement against intellectual property produced by The League of Noble Peers and released via the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol.

Two parts, and one special The Pirate Bay trial edition of the first part, have been released so far, and The League of Noble Peers is working on "Steal this Film - The Movie" and a new project entitled "The Oil of the 21st Century"

Steal This Film Part 1

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Steal This Film - TRIAL EDITION




Subtitles: Steal This Film Part 1

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Subtitles: Steal This Film Part 2

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    About Steal This Film

    Part one

    Part One, shot in Sweden and released in August 2006, combines accounts from prominent players in the Swedish piracy culture (The Pirate Bay, Piratbyrån, and the Pirate Party) with found material, propaganda-like slogans and Vox Pops.

    It includes interviews with The Pirate Bay members Fredrik Neij (tiamo), Gottfrid Svartholm (anakata) and Peter Sunde (brokep) that were later re-used by agreement in the documentary film Good Copy Bad Copy, as well as with Piratbyrån members Rasmus Fleischer (rsms), Johan (krignell) and Sara Andersson (fraux).

    The film[3] is notable for its critical analysis of an alleged regulatory capture[4] attempt performed by the Hollywood film lobby to leverage economic sanctions by the United States government on Sweden through the WTO. Evidence is presented of pressure applied through Swedish courts on Swedish police to conducting a search and seizure against to disrupt The Pirate Bay's BitTorrent tracker service, in contravention of Swedish law.[5]

    The Guardian's James Flint called Part One "at heart a traditionally-structured 'talking heads' documentary" with "amusing stylings" from film-makers who "practice what they preach."[6] It also screened at the British Film Institute and numerous independent international events, and was a talking point in 2007's British Documentary Film Festival.[7][8] In January 2008 it was featured on BBC Radio 4's Today, in a discussion piece which explored the implications of P2P for traditional media.[citation needed]

    Material found in Steal This Film includes the music of Can, tracks "Thief" and "She Brings the Rain"; clips from other documentary interviews with industry and governmental officials; several industry anti-piracy promotionals; logos from several major Hollywood studios, and sequences from The Day After Tomorrow, The Matrix, Zabriskie Point, and They Live. The use of these short clips is believed to constitute fair use.

     

    Part two

    Yochai Benkler - On Autonomy, Control and Cultural Experience.ogg
    Steal This Film featured interviews with cultural economy theorists such as Yochai Benkler. Here, Benkler discusses the growth of user autonomy, and the transition towards broader participation in creating culture
    Steal This Film (Part 2)[9] (sometimes subtitled 'The Dissolving Fortress') was produced during 2007. It premiered (in a preliminary version) at a conference entitled "The Oil of the 21st Century - Perspectives on Intellectual Property" in Berlin, Germany, November 2007.[10]

    Thematically, Part 2 "examines the technological and enforcement end of the copyright wars, and on the way that using the internet makes you a copier, and how copying puts you in legal jeopardy."[11] It discusses Mark Getty's assertion that 'intellectual property is the oil of the 21st century'. Part 2 draws parallels between the impact of the printing press and the internet in terms of making information accessible beyond a privileged group or "controllers". The argument is made that the decentralised nature of the internet makes the enforcement of conventional copyright impossible. Adding to this the internet turns consumers into producers, by way of user generated content, leading to the sharing, mashup and creation of content not motivated by financial gains. This has fundamental implications for market-based media companies. The documentary asks "How will society change" and states "This is the Future - And it has nothing to do with your bank balance".

    Boing Boing's Cory Doctorow called it 'an amazing, funny, enraging and inspiring documentary series', and Part II "even better than part I."[11]

     

    Trial Edition

    A Trial Edition (also known as '2.5' or 'Spectrial' edition) was released to coincide with the trial in 2009 of The Pirate Bay. This version includes material from Steal This Film I and II combined with new interviews shot with Peter Sunde and others during 2008, some historical background about the Pirate Bay and Dutch printers (who were also considered pirates) as well as interview clips about the legal conflict itself.[12] Steal This Film 'Spectrial Edition' is widely available online and it is thought to be this version that is now available to television stations and others. One high-definition, full-length copy is available for online viewing on the popular video-sharing website YouTube.[13].

    The new edition of Steal This Film was part of the Official Selection and in competition at the 2009 Roma Fiction Festival (Factual strand).[14][15] The jury awarded a Special Mention for its "unconventional style and provocative look at the media revolution taking place in the world."[16]

     

    Festivals, Cinema and Other Screenings

    Steal This Film was selected for the Sheffield International Documentary Film Festival 2008,[17] South By Southwest festival 2008 in Austin, Texas,[18] and the Singapore International Film Festival 2008.[19] Other festivals at which it was shown included Tampere Film Festival, 2008[20], Salt Spring Film Festival 2007[21], Rhythm of the Line Festival 2007[22] and Kerala International Film Festival, India.[citation needed] Steal This Film was nominated for the Ars Electronica 2008 Digital Communities prize[23] and was a semi-finalist in online video-streaming site Babelgum's 2008 competition. Amongst others it has been shown on History Channel Spain, Canal + Poland, Noga Israel, TV4 Sweden and Dublin Community TV, Ireland.[citation needed]

    The film is taught in Universities on media courses worldwide, including NYU's Media Culture & Communication course.[24]

     

    Online Distribution

    The film is famous partly for being one of the most downloaded documentaries to date. Part One was released through an arrangement with The Pirate Bay; the filesharing site marketed Steal This Film in place of its own pirate ship logo. This produced millions of downloads for the film and catapulted it to wide recognition on the Internet after it hit Digg, Slashdot, Reddit and other online centers of attention.

    Steal This Film (Part 2) was distributed in a similar manner, but with more trackers and indexes involved, including Isohunt and Mininova. Estimates of the total current downloads of the film hover at around the 6 million mark via bittorrent alone. Since the creators have not attempted to restrict copying, the film is also available on YouTube, Google Video and many other web-based video service.

    A cam version leaked soon after the premiere of Steal This Film (Part 2) in Berlin.[25] Part 2 had its theatrical (rather than viewed online) premiere at the openly-organised Who Makes And Owns Your Work artistic seminar in Stockholm 2007.[26] Despite the principles of the seminar itself (organised via public wiki in a year-long process), the involvement of Piratbyran roused the funders of the seminar, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, to prohibit Piratbyran's logo on the seminar marketing materials alongside its own.[27] The seminar initiators' solution was to add a black sticker dot over the logo, which was easily peeled off. Another condition given by the Committee was that a moderator or an anti-piracy spokesperson be present to balance the debate.[28]


    Film poster mockup used the logo for The Pirate Bay

    The documentary was officially released for peer-to-peer filesharing using peer-to-peer networks on December 28, 2007 and, according to the filmmakers, downloaded 150,000 times in the first three days of distribution.[29] Pirate Bay encouraged the downloading of Steal This Film Two, announcing its release on its blog.[30] Steal This Film Part 2 was also screened by the Pirate Cinema Copenhagen in January 2008.[31] The documentary can also be downloaded on the official Steal This Film website.[32]

     

    Language

    Like Part One, Part Two is in Swedish. Part One had subtitles in English. Due to great interest in the documentary by volunteer translators, Part Two has subtitles in Czech, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, French, Finnish, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and Ukrainian.

     

    Financing

    As well as funding from BritDoc, the Steal This Film producers continues to utilize a loose version of the Street Performer Protocol[citation needed], collecting voluntary donations via a PayPal account, from the website.[33] For future financing, director Jamie King has written that he and the League of Noble Peers propose, a "post IP compensation system" which "allows viewers and listeners to make voluntary payments right from the client in which they play media." [34]

     

    Donations

    The League of Noble Peers asked for donations and more than US$30,000 has been received as of July 5, 2009.[35] The filmmakers report that roughly one in a thousand viewers are donating, mostly in the range USD $15–40.

     

    Credits

    Steal This Film One and Two are credited as 'conceived, directed, and produced' by The League of Noble Peers. Where Part One contains no personal attribution, Part Two has full credits.

    The League of Noble Peers are now working on a cinema release of Steal This Film.[citation needed]

     

    See also

     

    References

    1. ^ Steal This Film: Things You Can Help With Wikidot.com, Steal this film Wiki. Anonymous, Last modified February 2006. Retrieved 2010-02-20
    2. ^ "Steal This Film - Projects". StealThisFilm.com. 2006,2007. http://www.stealthisfilm.com/Part2/projects.php. Retrieved 2010-04-10. 
    3. ^ "Steal This Film (Part 1)". StealThisFilm.com. http://www.stealthisfilm.com/Part1/. Retrieved 2010-02-20. 
    4. ^ "Documentary Film Video: Listing for Steal This Film". DocumentaryFilm.net. http://www.documentary-film.net/search/video-listings.php?e=57. Retrieved 2010-02-20. 
    5. ^ Doctorow, Cory (August 23, 2006). Steal This Movie: documentary on Swedish piracy movement. BoingBoing.net. Retrieved 2010-04-09.
    6. ^ Flint, James (September 25, 2006). "Steal This Film, read this article". The Guardian. http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,1880222,00.html#article_continue. Retrieved 2010-02-20. 
    7. ^ Search, Jess; King, Jamie; et. al. (July 27, 2007). "Britdoc 07 Talking Sessions: Steal This Film". BritDoc Foundation. http://foundation.britdoc.org/festival/07/talking.php. Retrieved 2010-04-10.  Audio parts 1 & 2.
    8. ^ Mayes, Tessa (August 6, 2007). "Don’t steal this article - but please do discuss it". Spiked Online. Retrieved 2010-04-09.
    9. ^ Steal This Film (Part 2). StealThisFilm.com. Retrieved 2010-04-10.
    10. ^ "Oil of the 21st Century Conference". Oil21.org. http://oil21.org/png/conference0607large.png. Retrieved 2010-02-20. 
    11. ^ a b Doctorow, Cory (December 29, 2007). "Steal This Film, Part II: the Internet makes us into copiers". Boingboing.com. http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/29/steal-this-film-part.html. Retrieved 2010-02-20.  Early review.
    12. ^ Roettgers, Janko (February 18, 2009). "New Steal This Film Documentary Just In Time For Pirate Bay Trial". GigaOM. Salon.com. http://www.salon.com/technology/the_gigaom_network/online_video/index.html?section=online_video&blog=/tech/giga_om/online_video/2009/02/17/new_steal_this_film_documentary_just_in_time_for_pirate_bay_trial. Retrieved 2010-04-10. 
    13. ^ Steal This Film - Trial Edition (video). YouTube.com. Uploaded February 17, 2009. Retrieved 2010-02-20.
    14. ^ Roma Fiction Festival 2009 selection of Steal This Film II.[dead link]
    15. ^ DRTV (8 July 2009). RomaFictionFest: il programma di oggi, mercoledì 8 luglio 8 (in Italian). TVGuida.com (Italy). Retrieved 2010-07-16. English tr.
    16. ^ RED/DBR (11 July 2009). SPE - RomaFictionFest: edizione da record, sfiorate 43mila presenze (in Italian). ilVelino.it; il Velino (Italy). Retrieved 2010-07-16. English tr.
    17. ^ Sheffield International Documentary Film Festival 2007 Film Schedule (PDF). SheffDocFest.com. November 8, 2008. Retrieved 2010-04-10.
    18. ^ South By Southwest 2008 Schedule and Screening Schedule SxSW.com, 2008. Retrieved 2010-04-10.
    19. ^ 21st Singapore International Film Festival - Screening Schedule 2008.
    20. ^ Tampere Film Festival 2008 listing of Steal This Film
    21. ^ Salt Spring Film Festival 2007 listing of Steal This Film[dead link]
    22. ^ Rhythm of the Line Festival (Germany) listing of Steal This Film.
    23. ^ Prix Ars Electronica 2008 nomination of Steal This Film.[dead link]
    24. ^ New York University, Media Culture & Communication 2008 Course including Steal This Film.
    25. ^ Steal This Film II - STF-II_CAM.avi(torrent) The Pirate Bay. Retrieved 2010-04-10.
    26. ^ Who Makes And Owns Your Work? Conference, 12 November 2007. Retrieved 2010-02-20.
    27. ^ Piratbyran Activities, 2007 (PDF). Piratbyran.org. 2008. Retrieved 2010-04-10.
    28. ^ Nygren, Tomas (November 13th, 2007) Gesamtkunstwerk: Who Makes and Owns Your Work launching at Årsta, Sat 17th November TomasNygren.org (photo, portions in Swedish). Retrieved 2010-04-10.
    29. ^ King, Jamie (January 3, 2008). "The Future Doesn't Care About The Bank Balance but the 1/1000 do!". Jamie.com. Archived from the original on 2008-02-12. http://web.archive.org/web/20080212085337/jamie.com/2008/01/03/the-future-doesnt-care-about-your-bank-balance-but-the-11000-do/. Retrieved 2010-02-20. 
    30. ^ The Pirate Bay - Blog Retrieved 2010-04-09.
    31. ^ Pirate Cinema Copenhagen Screening, January 13, 2008. Retrieved 2010-04-09.
    32. ^ Steal This Film Part 2 Download Official download page. StealThisFilm.com.
    33. ^ Donations Page Stealthisfilm.com.
    34. ^ King, Jamie (November 22, 2007) Content producers should take advantage of P2P, not fear it New Media Age. Retrieved 2010-04-10.
    35. ^ Ernesto (January 5, 2008). "When Pirates Pay, They Pay Good". TorrentFreak. http://torrentfreak.com/when-pirates-pay-they-pay-good-080105/. Retrieved 2008-01-08. 

     

    External links


    Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steal_This_Film

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    If we have right to use three things separately, I see nothing in reason or in the law, which forbids our using them all together. A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece of wood? He has a right to use his knife to cut his meat, a fork to hold it; may a patentee take from him the right to combine their use on the same subject?

    If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it.

    Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it.

    He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

    That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.

    Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.

    – Thomas Jefferson





    I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility
    against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

    – Thomas Jefferson



    Further information about anti-copyright will be forthcoming. In the meantime, check out the following:
    Source: http://praxeology.net/anticopyright.htm

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