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Appropriate This Movie When Technology Permits

December 30, 2007 on 10:42 pm |
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The awesomely-named League of Noble Peers has released the second part of the Steal This Film project. It’s superbly well-researched, intelligent and insightful.

Get it here via BitTorrent. If your machine will handle it, get the 720p HD version - it looks great.

If you missed the previous installment (watch here on Google video), here’s a quick catch-up. The League of Noble Peers, an anonymous collective of likeminded copyleft people in continental Europe released the first part in August 2006. This part concentrated on the raid on The Pirate Bay BitTorrent tracker by Svenska Antipiratbyrån, the Swedish anti-piracy bureau. It also traced the evolution of new distribution mechanisms and the development of the new copy-culture, taking examples from Brazil, the United States, Russia and Africa.

The second part looks at the historical evolution of copyright, and speculates on its future (to sum up: “doomed”). The production values are much better, and they make really nice use of archive clips and bespoke animations (*LOVE* the rabbits bit…).

They’re both very nice pieces of film-making. And the League claims that those who donate US$15 or more towards the production costs of the next instalment will receive a ‘mystery gift pack’…

The opening screen is a nice touch:

Enjoy.