Steal This Film II

Synopsis

Professor and activist Jamie King has become a figurehead for the opposition in the war against file sharing. Steal This Film II explains how and why the war has been lost and the huge potential of new avenues of grassroots distribution, file-sharing and piracy that fly in the face of the old established Hollywood models.

The team behind the film, or the ‘League of Noble Peers’ as they are known, intended the film as a rallying call to ‘bring new people into the leagues of those now prepared to think creatively about the future of distribution, production and creativity’. In line with the film’s polemical argument, Steal This Film II is only available to view via free download. In the first 48 hours alone, over 150,000 people had downloaded it.  4 months on, that number had risen to 650,000 and it keeps on growing.

About the director

Jamie King is a filmmaker, writer and activist working enthusiastically in the area of new media, post-IP culture and social organisation. A former editor of Mute Magazine, lobbyist at the UN, journalist at ITN News, and consultant for Channel 4 Television, Jamie is now focused on radical approaches to sharing, exchange and co-operation indicated by network technologies across a variety of media.
Co-organiser of the 2003 WSIS We Seize! counter-UN summit, Jamie continues to be involved in highlighting the importance of information politics in the social movements. Steal This Film I and II, documentaries exploring the uncertain future of intellectual property, have been downloaded over 4 million times via BitTorrent and featured at numerous international film festivals.

Jamie is currently working on a VODO, a voluntary donation system for the post-IP generation.

Previous films:

Steal This Film I

Distribution Deals

• TV
  • Noga (Israel)
  • History Channel (Spain)