Steal This Film 2 Goes Live

Written by Ernesto on December 28, 2007 

We’ve been waiting… and waiting… but STEAL THIS FILM II has finally been released, and it’s available for free. The League of Noble Peers announce that film is intended to ‘bring new people into the leagues of those now prepared to think ‘after intellectual property’, think creatively about the future of distribution, production and creativity’.

Steal This Film 2 Goes LiveTorrentFreak was invited to a ‘preview’ screening a couple of months ago, and we think they might achieve their goal!

Steal This Film 1 already was a huge success with nearly 3 million downloads, and we think this will be no different for part 2. The film, again produced by The League of Noble Peers, features some people from the BitTorrent community such as Erik from mininova and Peter (aka Brokep) from The Pirate Bay. Dan Glickman from the MPAA also makes a short appearance stating that they will never be able to stop piracy, but I guess we already knew that.

Jamie King of the League Of Noble Peers was answering chat requests today, so we caught up with him to ask a couple of questions:

TF: You must be excited about releasing the film finally. What’s been the delay?

JK: To be honest, the film simply took a lot longer than we’d imagined to make — it’s a big step forward from STF I for us. And then we got sidetracked with The Oil Of The 21st Century, a conference some of us were involved in organising in Berlin this year. It was great and we got to preview the film there for some friends, but we’re sorry to everyone who was waiting. We’re sure no one has been that upset!

TF: Are you working with anyone to promote the film this time?

JK: Of course we’ll be working with The Pirate Bay again to do a bit of promotion, as we’ve really discussed the project a lot with those guys. We’ve also got to know the people at Mininova who’ll be seeding the torrent and promoting it a bit. I was also really pleased to hear that BitTorrent themselves will be featuring the film since we met them during a screening of STF II in Amsterdam. We’re really up for working with anyone who’d like to feature STEAL THIS FILM so get in touch!

TF: Is there a streaming version anywhere?

JK: We discussed this a lot. There will be a streaming version (and of course we can’t and wouldn’t want to prevent anyone transcoding it and uploading it whereever they like) but right now, it’s about BitTorrent. With The Pirate Bay and Mininova seeding it, there shouldn’t be any problem with the download speeds.

TF: Are you asking for donations?

JK: Yes, but not for this film :D We have a new project in development — based around our ‘Oil Of The 21st Century’ idea — and we’re headed out to Asia in the new year to start investigating. We’re asking anyone who wants to help us with this project to donate $5 or more (or whatever they can afford really) to donate@stealthisfilm.com. Oh! And we’re giving away a secret giftpack to anyone who donates $15 or more.

TF: Any final words?

JK: Only that we’re really pleased to be releasing STF II after more than a year and we’re looking forward to all the argument we hope it will generate. And we’d like to say a massive thanks to everyone who supported us so far. You rock.

You can download Steal This Film 2 over here.

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1 Dec 28, 2007 at 21:47 by Superdan

Great, looking forward to watch it :)

2 Dec 28, 2007 at 22:14 by Ravenous Consumer

Oo! A secret gift pack!

3 Dec 28, 2007 at 22:37 by big dawg

Never heard of it… where can I get the 1st one….?

4 Dec 28, 2007 at 22:49 by Anonymous

[quote comment="250418"]Never heard of it… where can I get the 1st one….?[/quote]
http://stealthisfilm.com/Part1/

5 Dec 28, 2007 at 23:09 by donkey

Will seed :D

6 Dec 28, 2007 at 23:28 by Anonymous

Realy realy liked the 2nd, very pro :)

Awesome done guys!

7 Dec 28, 2007 at 23:59 by Anonymous

Thanks to the person seeding from the Netherlands (using rTorrent) really fast :)

8 Dec 29, 2007 at 00:19 by Deimon

At last! Sad that I’m on a lan right now and can’t download it.

9 Dec 29, 2007 at 00:27 by KungfuTornado

hmm.. the secret gift pack’s got me intrigued :)

Running off to grab the film now !

10 Dec 29, 2007 at 00:46 by Mr.IceMan

i have a feeling this film is super :D downloading it at 375.5 kB/s :D

11 Dec 29, 2007 at 01:09 by adgadfg

It’s already on Stage6:

Stream:
http://www.stage6.com/user/greendv/video/2001195/

Direct download:
http://video.stage6.com/2001195/.divx

hf

12 Dec 29, 2007 at 02:51 by KungfuTornado

Well worth watching! Recommended viewing ;)

Might need to donate now, I want a secret gift pack lol

13 Dec 29, 2007 at 03:09 by LEN M.

I will steal all films lol
LEN M. net graffiti

14 Dec 29, 2007 at 03:10 by Sonic

Steal This Film II.iso ???? WTF???

???ISO???

15 Dec 29, 2007 at 03:37 by unknown

It means disc image, Geez.

16 Dec 29, 2007 at 04:36 by Anonymous

[quote comment="250578"]Steal This Film II.iso ???? WTF???

???ISO???[/quote]
where the hell did you find the ISO version of this film ????????!!!!????!!!???!!!????

17 Dec 29, 2007 at 04:36 by hohoho

incorrectly labeled
should be called share this film 2
calling it steal is aka crminalizing yourself.

18 Dec 29, 2007 at 05:07 by b

Actually, it’s copyrighted. It says so at the end, “so you can still steal it.”

If you like this, you’d probably also like Good Copy Bad Copy (http://www.goodcopybadcopy.net/), a similar documentary (from which the Dan Glickman interview clip was, well, “stolen”).

GCBC is a tough act to follow. It opened my mind to so many different things, like Brazilian mashup music, the use of samples by N.W.A., and so on. This, STF II, is a decent and well-produced film but it really seems like not much in it is new, aside from a little historical perspective. Still, I’m glad the message is getting out there — repeating ourselves can’t hurt.

And perhaps this film was a little more populist. Though is it just me, or can that rapper not keep a rhythm at all?

19 Dec 29, 2007 at 05:09 by beatlebum

downloading right now!

sharing is caring ;)

20 Dec 29, 2007 at 07:13 by anon

http://demonoid.com is down… Ernesto, can you figure out why? Thanks.

21 Dec 29, 2007 at 07:27 by markie

The speed I got from this torrent was incredible. Upwards of 600kb/s The fastest my bittorrent client has ever gone. And I just use Azureus. I downloaded the torrent straight from the website.

http://www.stealthisfilm.com/Part2/

22 Dec 29, 2007 at 07:56 by Joey

Anyone else get garbled audio in parts of the Xvid version? I’m watching the film and its very well produced, but I’ve had two areas with garbled audio so far (about 5 seconds of garbled sound each time) and I’m only on the 13th minute of the film. If others are having this same issues, they should reencode the originals again and reseed it. It would be/is a shame to have such a high quality produced film be release with technical issues such as the garbled audio.

23 Dec 29, 2007 at 09:21 by alex

Very pro this version, nicely done :)
congrat gents

24 Dec 29, 2007 at 09:42 by Joe

Very nice film

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