- ARCHIVE / Documentary
- ‘Steal this Film blazes trails in open distribution and raw footage sharing.’
[from our friends at
Miro. Thanks Holmes!]
Not many shoestring-budget documentary films get seen by
4.86 million people.
It helps that
“Steal this Film” covers the war between Hollywood and a prevailing mode of online video distribution, and that the film’s logo stood in for
the pirate ship on the front page of the world’s favorite torrent […] - ACTA Could Be “Binding” By End of 2008
U.S. Report Says ACTA Deal Gaining Steam
… a report out of the U.S. suggests that there is considerable reason for public concern regarding ACTA.
Congress Daily (sub req) quotes a high-level official from the USTR as indicating that the talks are gaining steam, with a binding international agreement likely by the end of the year. […] - The ‘Mysterious Supernote’
[’Mysterious Supernote’ is a chapter from Klaus W. Bender,
Moneymakers: The Secret World of Banknote Printing. I think you won’t find it anywhere else on the Web in plain text, or even as a PDF, but if you do, please let me know.]
Over the years the “almighty greenback” has been far and way the most […] - Counterfeit Money
A very short story by Baudelaire.
As we were walking away from a tobacconist’s, my friend carefully sorted out his change: into his left vest pocket he slipped the small gold coins, into his right vest pocket the small silver coins; into the left pocket of his pants, a handful of large copper coins, and […] - STEAL THIS FILM II screenings and coverage
I’ll use this post as a place to record STEAL THIS FILM II coverage I have noticed. Usually this means it will be a substantial post or a well-known publication.
(I note that many blogs and online publications simply re-iterate all or part of the text from the front page of
STEALTHISFILM.COM, and/or Wikipedia, and/or BoingBoing. […] - ‘The Future Doesn’t Care About Your Bank Balance’… But the 1/1000 Do!
Raw numbers can’t convey the excitement of releasing
STEAL THIS FILM II at the end of 2007, but here they are anyway: in the first 4 days there have been approximately 150,000 downloads (we haven’t checked how many views there have been on
bittorrent.com,
Stage6,
Joox,
YouTube,
Google Video and everywhere else the film has […] - Imitation in Western And Chinese Thought
I’m transcribing part of a chapter from
The Exemplary Society,
Imitation in Western And Chinese Thought (This transcription will be lengthening and improving as I am able to add to it.) - Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals In China
- Counterfeit Cars In China
Two pieces on counterfeiting of cars in China. Note in the first piece posted here, academic Stephen Mihm describes how 150 years ago, the USA was also a counterfeit economy, ripping off everything from books to gin. Mihm (Ph.D. New York University, 2003; Assistant Professor of History) is the author of
A Nation of Counterfeiters: […] - Beijing Shijingshan Amusement Park
This theme park, located in the
Shijingshan District of
Beijing,
China, first opened in 1986. It is owned and operated by the
Shijingshan District government. The park has been featured in international media this year for having made unauthorized use of Japanese and American cartoon characters. From Wikipedia (Dec 2007):
according to a report originally broadcast on
Fuji TV’s FNN News, the park features a […]