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Please Watch the Following Two Independently Produced Documentaries and Comment. The Future of Media Hangs in the Balance.

Steal This Film - Part 1 - 32:16 - Aug 24, 2006
The League of Noble Peers

Documenting the steadfast movement against intellectual property, Part 1 of Steal This Film takes account of the prominent players in the Swedish piracy (copyright infringement) culture: The Pirate Bay, Piratbyrån (Piracy Bureau), and The Pirate Party. This includes a critical analysis of the 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 an illegal search and seizure for the purpose of disrupting a competitive distribution channel: The Pirate Bay tracker for P2P Internet filesharing with the BitTorrent protocol.

PART ONE http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9198224502900953337

Steal This Film II
Thematically, part Two examines the technological and cultural aspects of the copyright wars, and the cultural and economic implications of the internet. It includes an exploration of Mark Getty's infamous statement that 'intellectual property is the oil of the 21st century'. Part two draws parallels between the impact of the printing press and the internet in terms of making information accessible beyond a privileged group or "controllers". The argument is made that the decentralised nature of the internet makes the enforcement of conventional copyright impossible. Adding to this the internet turns consumers into producers, by way of consumer generated content, leading to the sharing, mashup and creation of content not motivated by financial gains. This has fundamental implications for market based media companies. The documentary asks "How will society change" and states "This is the Future - And it has nothing to do with your bank balance".

PART TWO http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3636669624532830059&hl=en
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Time Warner demands that its music videos be removed from YouTube

As long as PG2 is updated accurately I'm good to go. :P

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Digital pirates winning battle with Hollywood
Studios' best efforts fail to foil illicit online video

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Norwegian State TV Sets up BitTorrent Tracker

The Norwegian state broadcaster NRK has decided to set up its own BitTorrent tracker, and it also plans to offer content through this form of distribution, it said on Sunday.

NRK started looking into using BitTorrent for distributing content after seeing how much of its own programming was becoming available via file-sharing sites. To see if BitTorrent could be used, it conducted an experiment in January last year, which proved successful, according to Eirik Solheim, project manager at NRK's development department.

BitTorrent isn't just a popular way of downloading content, but it is also robust and a cheap way for NRK to distribute programs, according to Solheim. Traditional download methods have proven difficult to use because of the large files and extreme load on the servers, as evidenced by a test with HD content, he said in an interview.

NRK's tracker will be based on the same OpenTracker software that The Pirate Bay has been using for the last couple of years, the broadcasting company said in a statement Sunday.

NRK set up its own tracker to get more detailed statistics and data about how this technology works. The content will be made available without encryption.

The first show available via the tracker is the popular "Der ingen skulle tru at nokon kunne bu" or "Where no one thought it would be possible for anyone to live", which follows the lives of people living in remote places in Norway. NRK has the rights to distribute it via BitTorrent, according to Solheim.

Getting the rights to distribute unprotected content via BitTorrent has proved to be more difficult than via, for example, streaming. NRK produces a lot of its own content, but it still has to get the rights, say for music, which has proved especially challenging, according to Solheim.

But Solheim is optimistic, and thinks it's possible to find a solution where NRK gets the rights it needs and the rights holders get the compensation they want.

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