“These are strange times indeed. While they continue to command so
much attention in the mainstream media, the ‘battles’ between old and
new modes of distribution, between the pirate and the institution of
copyright, seem to many of us already lost and won. We know who the
victors are. Why then say any more?
This documentary highlights the fact that because waves of
repression continue to come: lawsuits are still levied against innocent
people; arrests are still made on flimsy pretexts, in order to terrify
and confuse; harsh laws are still enacted against filesharing, taking
their place in the gradual erosion of our privacy and the bolstering of
the surveillance state. All of this is intended to destroy or delay
inexorable changes in what it means to create and exchange our
creations. If STEAL THIS FILM II proves at all useful in bringing new
people into the leagues of those now prepared to think ‘after
intellectual property’, think creatively about the future of
distribution, production and creativity, we have achieved our main
goal.”