Steal This Film II

[AdverseSolutions]

http://www.stealthisfilm.com/Part2/

These are strange times indeed. While they continue to command so much attention in the mainstream media, the 'battles' between old and new modes of distribution, between the pirate and the institution of copyright, seem to many of us already lost and won. We know who the victors are. Why then say any more?

Because waves of repression continue to come: lawsuits are still levied against innocent people; arrests are still made on flimsy pretexts, in order to terrify and confuse; harsh laws are still enacted against filesharing, taking their place in the gradual erosion of our privacy and the bolstering of the surveillance state. All of this is intended to destroy or delay inexorable changes in what it means to create and exchange our creations. If STEAL THIS FILM II proves at all useful in bringing new people into the leagues of those now prepared to think 'after intellectual property', think creatively about the future of distribution, production and creativity, we have achieved our main goal.

DL it via torrent and post your comments. I thought it was brilliant, and provided useful historical context about knowledge sharing. In fact, sharing it as we speak... ;)

[Shaft Agent]

watched it yesterday. really thought provoking :tup:

[AdverseSolutions]

did you check out the first one too? dling now

[Gasp]

ill try and check this out this week

[Shaft Agent]

did you check out the first one too? dling nowyeah, i watched the first one last year. it's was an explanation on how The Pirate Bay got shut down and brought back to life.

[FurryCurry]

But how are niggas gonna get paid?!

[Shade]

Great fucking find. Burning this for friends and family as we speak.

[Shaft Agent]

But how are niggas gonna get paid?!donations?

technically, you can't have free speech if you have copyright laws...

[rush down]

I saw this film on mininova and was going to get it but I've been burned so many times by accidently downloading silly conspiricy movies I avoided it. I'll check it out when I get home.

[MESOPOTAMIA]

I like this movie. It makes me feel good to watch movies, listen to music and play video games for free without compensating the people who make them. I'm doing this for a noble cause and supporting the future.

[rush down]

22minutes into the movie when there is a cat showing us a mouse there is a sample in the left speaker that says "lets go". I'm about 90% sure thats a sample from an announcer from a fighting game.

I'm watching the film now and I love that they touched on art no longer being controlled by a few and instead now EVERYONE has the ability to distribute their own art. I've always thought that in many ways this is going to rocket art forward. And it really already has. No longer will some douche bag with a fat wallet tell people who's "the best" or "most popular" rock band, rapper, or artist. People can get the commercial artist and the home artist with equal difficultly; none at all. They will simply pick which they like more. I just love what this means for MTV.

[AdverseSolutions]

22minutes into the movie when there is a cat showing us a mouse there is a sample in the left speaker that says "lets go". I'm about 90% sure thats a sample from an announcer from a fighting game.

I'm watching the film now and I love that they touched on art no longer being controlled by a few and instead now EVERYONE has the ability to distribute their own art. I've always thought that in many ways this is going to rocket art forward. And it really already has. No longer will some douche bag with a fat wallet tell people who's "the best" or "most popular" rock band, rapper, or artist. People can get the commercial artist and the home artist with equal difficultly; none at all. They will simply pick which they like more. I just love what this means for MTV.

Just wrote an article about this (unfortunately in Japanese) for a mag, and right in the middle of putting it on paper I found Steal This Film II, so perfect. It's one of the best efforts to merge theory and practice I've ever seen (literally, to even SEE the movie you have to figure out what a torrent is and join the rest of the civilized file sharing world).

I did get around to seeing the first one as well, which was cool enough and worth a look. I did find the focus on 'violations of Swedish national sovereignty' a bit lame, after all at the end of the day governments are going to try to use their 'sovereignty' against file sharers period, doesn't matter if Sweden is a temporary exception. The idea is to critique music, games etc. as a commodity, and not to retreat into an idea of national law as something inviolable.