Steal This Film Parts I and II

Synopsis: STEAL THS FILM is a film series documenting the movement against intellectual property. Part One, shot in Sweden and released in August 2006 only via the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol, combines accounts from prominent players in the Swedish piracy culture (The Pirate Bay - one of the web’s most popular peer-to-peer network sites, its mother organisation Piratbyrån, and its political offshoot The Pirate Party) with found material, propaganda-like slogans and Vox Pops. Includes film clips from other documentary interviews with industry and governmental officials; several industry anti-piracy promotionals; logos from several major Hollywood studios, and sequences from several Hollywood films. The use of these short clips is believed to constitute fair use.
32 min. May be viewed on Google video at: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4116387786400792905.

Thematically, Part Two (sometimes subtitled THE DISSOLVING FORTRESS) examines the technological and cultural aspects of the copyright wars, and the implications of the internet for copying. It includes an exploration of Mark Getty’s infamous statement that "Intellectual Property is the oil of the 21st century’. 44 minutes.

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Language: English
Country: Sweden
Year of release: 2007
Year of production: 2007
Subjects: Film studies; Law; Media studies; Technology
Keywords: copyright law; Internet; online services; film distribution; film piracy; filesharing