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Steal This Film is a film series documenting the movement against intellectual property. Part One, shot in Sweden and released in August 2006 only via the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol, combines accounts from prominent players in the Swedish piracy culture (The Pirate Bay, Piratbyrån, and the Pirate Party) with found material, propaganda-like slogans and Vox Pops.

Part One includes a critical analysis of an alleged regulatory capture attempt performed by the Hollywood film lobby to leverage economic sanctions by the United States government on Sweden through the WTO. Alleged aims included the application of pressure to Swedish police into conducting a search and seizure against Swedish law for the purpose of disrupting The Pirate Bay's BitTorrent tracker.

The film includes interviews with Pirate Bay members Fredrik (tiamo), Gottfrid (Anakata) and Peter Sunde (brokep) that were later used in the documentary film Good Copy Bad Copy, as well as with Piratbyrån members Rasmus Fleisher (RSMS), Johan (Krignell), and Sara (Fraux), and many Swedish citizens.

Part Two (sometimes subtitled 'The Dissolving Fortress') was produced during 2007. It premiered (in a preliminary version) at a conference in Berlin, Germany in November. A cam version leaked soon after. It was officially released on file sharing networks on December 28, 2007 and, according to the filmmakers, downloaded 150,000 times in the
first three days of distribution.

Thematically, Part Two examines the technological and cultural aspects of the copyright wars, and the implications of the internet for copying. It includes an exploration of Mark Getty's infamous statement that "Intellectual Property is the oil of the 21st century'. It was selected for the Sheffield International Documentary Film Festival and is forthcoming at a number of other film festivals worldwide.

::OFFICIAL NOTICE::

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Date: Monday, 14th January 200

Venue: KHOJ International Artists' Association, S-17, Khirkee Extension, New Delhi - 110017

Sched:

Screening of "Steal This Film Part 1" - 45 mins

Intermission - 15 mins

Screening of "Steal This Film Part 2" - 45 mins

Discussion - 30 mins.(approx

Screening Co-ordinated by Kaustubh Srikanth and Sophea Lerner