Steal This Film

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Not to be confused with Steal This Movie!.

Steal This Film is a film series documenting the movement against intellectual property. Part One takes account of the prominent players in the Swedish piracy culture: The Pirate Bay, Piratbyrån, and the Pirate Party. This includes a critical analysis of the alleged^{[citation needed]} 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 a search and seizure for the purpose of disrupting a competitive distribution channel: The Pirate Bay tracker for P2P Internet file sharing with the BitTorrent protocol.

1 Production
2 Financing
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Production

Steal This Film was conceived, directed, and produced by The League of Noble Peers.
Released in August 2006 only via the BitTorrent protocol for peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing.

[edit] Financing

The Steal This Film series, produced by the League of Noble Peers, is funded by donations collected via the www.stealthisfilm.com website, using a PayPal account.

Steal This Film does enclose several pieces of other media, namely Can tracks "Thief" and "She Brings the Rain", along with sequences from the Hollywood blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow. Clips are also used from The Matrix, Zabriskie Point, and They Live. The use of these short clips is believed to constitute fair use.

Steal This Film also contains "subliminal" messages throughout.^[1] These messages are easily noticed, thus negating the "subliminality".