Tuesday, March 4th in the TA ( HCL 8 )
6:00 PM to 6:40 – Steal This Film pt 1
Steal This Film is a film documenting the movement against intellectual property released via the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol.
The film is notable for its critical analysis of an alleged regulatory capture attempt performed by the Hollywood film lobby to leverage economic sanctions by the United States government on Sweden through the WTO. Alleged aims included the application of pressure to Swedish police into conducting a search and seizure against Swedish law for the purpose of disrupting The Pirate Bay’s BitTorrent tracker.
6:45 PM to 7:30 PM – Steal This Film pt 2
This part 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’. It was selected for the Sheffield International Documentary Film Festival and South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. It was also shown during the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam.
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