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53 minutes | Teen | 2006 |
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Documenting the steadfast movement against intellectual property.
SynopsisSteal This Film takes account of the prominent players in the Swedish piracy (copyright infringement) culture: The Pirate Bay, PiratbyrÄn (Piracy Bureau), and The Pirate Party. This includes a critical analysis of the regulatory capture asserted by Hollywood film industry to leverage economic sanctions by the United States government on Sweden through the WTO to pressure Swedish police into conducting an illegal search and seizure for the purpose of disrupting a competitive distribution channel: The Pirate Bay tracker for P2P Internet filesharing with the BitTorrent protocol.
Film was taught in universities worldwide, including NYU's Media Culture & Communications course
Film was shown on History Channel in Span, Canal, Poland, Noga Israel, Sweden, and Dublin
Film was distributed online to download through Pirate Bay, a popular BitTorrent peer-to-peer sharing network.
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