This is a longer version of the piece I have just written for The Guardian newspaper, I’m not sure whether it’s destined for the Comment or Comment Is Free section. It also has the benefit of having links.
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Filesharing is the favourite whipping-boy of an entertainment industry refusing to update its business models for the P2P [...]
This is the first installment of a bi-weekly piece I’ll be writing for TorrentFreak. I’m really excited about getting a column back after Channel 4 binned me over a year ago (but then they never really understood what I was going on about.)
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These last few years P2Pers have got used to TV entertainment [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
STEAL THIS FILM I and II were just shown at Star And Shadow Cinema in Newcastle, UK. The cinema is run entirely by about 20 volunteer members, with all members having a say in how it’s run. We have Alan Thornton to thank for programming STEAL THIS FILM.One of the nice things about these guys [...]
It’s been more than a year since the last installment, but STEAL THIS FILM II is about to come out. We’ve already screened it in Berlin, Sheffield and Stockholm; there’s a screening coming up in Amsterdam to coincide with IDFA, and then Rome, all before the end of 2007. But we’re really more interested in [...]