Steal This Film | |
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Produced by | The League of Noble Peers |
Starring | Members of The Pirate Bay and Piratbyrån |
Distributed by | Independent BitTorrent only |
Release date
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21 August 2006 |
Running time
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32 minutes (original) 52 minutes (trial edition) |
Country | UK and Germany |
Language | English, with some subtitled Swedish |
Budget | $3,000 |
Steal This Film 2 | |
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Directed by | Jamie King (producer) |
Produced by | The League of Noble Peers |
Cinematography | Luca Lucarini |
Edited by | Luca Lucarini |
Distributed by | Independent BitTorrent only |
Release date
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28 December 2007 |
Running time
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44 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom, Germany |
Language | English |
Steal This Film is a film series documenting the movement against intellectual property directed by Jamie King (producer), produced by The League of Noble Peers and released via the 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".
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 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. Evidence is presented of pressure applied through Swedish courts on Swedish police to conducting a search and seizure against The Pirate Bay to disrupt its BitTorrent tracker service, in contravention of Swedish law.