In Guantanamo Film Premieres on BitTorrent
Written by Ernesto on November 06, 2009With support from the three largest BitTorrent sites and many other well known file-sharing partners, the VODO project offers a novel distribution platform for indie filmmakers. Today VODO presents its second release, the world premiere of In Guantanamo, a critical film about the U.S. detainment facility in Cuba.
VODO, short for voluntary donation, has been a great success thus far. With support from several torrent sites including Mininova, The Pirate Bay and isoHunt, their first film was downloaded several hundred thousand times.
Today the project releases the film ‘In Guantanamo’ which makes a worldwide premiere on BitTorrent. The film documents filmmaker David Miller’s three day tour of the controversial camps, invited by the U.S. government.
“Although the event was presented as a chance to ’see inside’ the working of Guantanamo, it was in fact a carefully staged PR exercise designed to yield predictable, stale, controlled media images,” we read on the Gitmo’s VODO release page.
The film has been officially released on VODO today and is currently featured on both isoHunt and The Pirate Bay. With help from these sites and several other partners well known to the file-sharing community, the project is able to attract a lot of eyeballs for upcoming and already established film talent.
VODO founder Jamie King told TorrentFreak that the project’s first film performed really well. “I think the first VODO release was a great success,” he said. “Around 250,000 downloads through our DISCO partners — as the filmmaker put it, that was more than his terrestrial TV release in the UK.”
As the project’s name already reveals, downloaders are encouraged to donate to the filmmakers if they appreciate their work. King told TorrentFreak that quite a few downloaders have donated generously. Not enough to fund a new movie obviously, but as the project gains more attention it is likely to bring in some serious income for the filmmakers.
In Guantanamo can be downloaded for free here.
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if the pirate bay is up and running, why does every torrent i get that has their tracker in it report that it has 0 seeds 0 leeches, and it always says it’s offline?
It will be interesting to see if the film makers were able to cut through all the lies and propaganda that’s been spewed out – including the fake tours given to visitors.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200504/s1355940.htm
Torture is only wrong if terrorist do it! ;)
@2 is that relevant for this ?
@4
Then where is the line between the US and terrorists?
If the US says they can torture because they are not terrorists, then will they say that suicide attacks conducted by the army are OK next?
@4 @Suicide attacks. ummm jfk? mlk?
^edit* @6
Awesome!..
Hope it evolve and florishes.
there is a very fine line between being a terrorist and being a revolutionary
One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. Terrorists/freedom fighters usually resort to violence because they are denied access to the normal political system, or the system is rigged against them.
How long before unjustly treated file sharers are defined as “terrorists”?
we are terrorists, we terrorize their bank accounts. we must be eliminated.
@12
In a way they already treat file-sharers as terrorists, draconian laws pop up across the planet, company “mercenaries” go after “evidence” through illegal channels, denial of rights by means of “superior” legal representation.
Imagine if you will, that the resistance fighters during WW1 and WW2 in a way also count as terrorists from the opposition’s point of view. Yet I and many others in and around Europe owe our very future to them for their actions.
since we are on the topic of documentaries….check out “102 minutes that changed america” by the history channel.
Then ask yourself if locking up criminals in jail is so damn wrong.
@15
Locking up criminals as you put it isn’t wrong but we are just saying that the label “terrorist” can be put on almost any person or group on the planet.
Further more roughly 3.000 deaths on the 11th of september resulted in over a 100.000 deaths in Iraq and who knows how many in Afghanistan, most of them are hard working innocent people. How many of the criminals that are responsible for that are locked up?
will check out, very good approach!
There is no law and no justice.No justice no peace.It is the law of the strongest. Let fetch our guns while we still can and fight for our freedom and against the corporations.
“the label “terrorist” can be put on almost any person or group on the planet.”
The RIAA/MPAA and the corporations they represent are groups of terrorists and shall be dealt with as such.
@16
It’s really depressing really, by now probably far more innocent people died in Iraq / Afghanistan than those initial 3000.
Eye for an eye? How about eye for a pair of legs.. those countries are destroyed!
@12 and 14
if you guys cannot see a difference between a (ww2,for example) freedom fighter (someone who destroys trains,ammo warehouses and other military-related stuff in an attempt to cripple the enemy military force that has occupied his country) and a terrorist (an a$$ that goes to some foreign country half the world across just to blow himself up in a school,church or other civilian building full off innocent people because he thinks they are a bunch of infidel swine and therefore they deserve death) then I suggest you should head back to school.
I thought they were going to close that place?
Fancy going to another country, kidnapping people and imprisoning them for 8 years…
I doubt they’ve achieved anything by that apart from wasting money and ruining the reputation of their country.
@20
How about towers for oil…. anyway, back on topic.
The first Doco on Vodo really touched me, I’m sure this one will live up to that standard. Donated to the first, and more than happy to donate again to high quality independant media projects.
Thanks for posting about this, hopefully as more people find out about these things, media based on donations can become more of a reality.
I encourage everyone else to donate too, do you need every cent in your paypal? Lets show the world we aren’t the ‘thieves’ that big business try to label us as.
We NEED projects like this to work, to send a message to the rest of the world. Of course not everyone is going to donate, or has the means to, but if you do… think about it.
Also available here to stream :
http://veehd.com/video/2046734_In-Guantanamo-2009-Flash-HD
Ha, what a bunch of noobs. While they mean to do well, this is a horrible rip of a movie. MP4? They should have used x264 in a matroska file. Why is bittorrent always so half-assed?
because the scene loves Guantanamo
gj TF, you will make these public scrubs seem more like supporting terrorist now
something you laughed at when 60mins said the same thing
@ 26
Your an idiot.. h264 can be in Mp4.. take a look at BRRIPs..
The quality of a file has nothing to do with the bittorrent protocol.
downloaded this in no time looks good
@25:
Why are wannabe scenesters all pretentious snobs with no knowledge of how these things work?
As #27 said, you can get h264 in MP4.
@21 sounds like the crusades
@ 27 and 29 : h264 and x264 are different things, yes you can use h264 streams with mp4, but the matroska container is much more advanced. And BRRips? you mean those crappy re-encodes from scene x264 rips? I think I’ll pass.
you’d think so, but have a look on any public tracker and you’d be amazed at the number of crappy encodes floating around. Bittorrent and crappy quality go hand in hand.
pretentious sn0b/wannabe scenester?
well, I only take offense at the wannabe part. And you’re clealy the sharpest knife in the drawer, aren’t you? sheep…
oh great another nitpicking twat that complains about everything that he gets for free.. OBVIOUSLY if there was something super leet that never had bad quality rips.. YOU WOULDNT BE HERE YOU F*CKING GIMP.
Rips come in all different sizes for everybodys needs.. compression has always played a key role in sharing.. MOST people dont have the patience or need for MKV files.. and its not even the most efficient way. If you want the highest quality DVD.. F*CKING BUY IT ASSHOLE.
Crappy BRRIPS? You have obviously not downloaded a well done BRRIP, try the movie UP by Kingdom..
You are a pretentious snob by a definition and if you dont like what your getting.. rip it yourself sh*tc*ck. Be happy somebody takes the time to provide files in the first place.
how does everyone watching a movie for free help filmmakers stay in business?
usual pro-theft bullshit.
How does everyone getting Linux and other free software for free stop the devs developing it?
usual anti-share bullshit.
@31 you’d think so, but have a look on any public tracker and you’d be amazed at the number of crappy encodes floating around. Bittorrent and crappy quality go hand in hand.
You will also be amazed at all the great quality files too. Just because some are not so well does not mean that people do not want them. Looking @ stats can tell you this. Also who says you have to get the “crappY’ stuff you are talking about? No one is putting a gat to your head & saying download this. If you don’t like a file, don’t download it or find another version or,gasp … create a better one yourself and upload it.
You can’t really complain that much about something that is free. If you don’t like it, provide it yourself being a better copy/quality.
Can’t wait till it finishes downloading. Looks pretty interesting.
http://www.plentyoftorrents.com
I’ll admit iraq was a fucked up war and a huge mistake.
However, when it comes to innocent civilians accidently dying in afghanistan. You can blame bin laden and the taliban for that.
When we were attacked on 9/11 we made a simple request to the taliban (the ruling government in afghanistan at the time). Hand over bin laden so we can put him on trial, or we will attack you for not handing him over.
The taliban chose to be attacked, and as a result some innocent civilians have died in the cross fire. Don’t blame america for that, blame the taliban.
If the taliban truly cared about it’s people then they wuold have simply handed over bin laden and avoided all this blood shed. They want war with us though and a war is what they got. Sadly some civilians do get caught in the crossfire now.
However, unlike groups like the taliban, we don’t purposely try to target civilians. In fact, we go to great lengths to try to protect them and we’ve even let a lot of terrorists get away because there were simply too many civilians around.
The taliban however will kill any civilian who doesn’t follow their strict rules and radical views on islam.
Is America innocent in the world, of course not (most countries arent). But it’s bullshit to put most the blame of deaths in afghanistan soley on America’s shoulder. Most the blame should be pointed at the taliban and other terrorist groups who use their civilians has human shields.
They should have just shot the bloody terrorists…..then we wouldn’t have to listen to the the Kum Ba Yah crowd whining about how the poor babies are being mistreated. Funny how we don’t hear the Red Cross complaining, and they are the group who monitors their treatment.
FYI.. the red cross are only allowed in GiTMO because they’ve made an agreement with the DOD not to make their findings public.
Way to go guys!
We at http://www.kickasstorrents.com support you!
Anybody can release a sh!tty 20 minute video and ask for donations. Props for putting it out there for free but nothing spectacular
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