“I think information, art and ideas should be shared.”
thinking about steal this film (both one, as well as two), as well as reading this blurb of an interview, has gotten me thinking about films that have been widely distributed via bittorrent. there are only a few other examples i can think of, the most recent of which being michael moore’s “slacker uprising.”
i seem to remember the john kerry and moveon.org swift boat veterans for truth rebuttal film (called something, something… upstream?) being distributed via bittorent, as well as “good copy, bad copy” which we showed last spring… are there any others?
does LEGITEMATELY distributing a film FOR FREE via bittorrent trackers mean that someone could screen it freely? not legally probably, but does that line of thinking hold up as far as the big picture goes? if something’s freely available (slacker uprising for instance) what’s the difference between putting it on a big screen and showing it to a ton of people for free, and telling them to all go home and download it for themselves?
