Don't Miss The Powerful Trailer For The Aaron Swartz Documentary: The Internet's Own Boy
from the wish-aaron-could-see-this dept
A year ago, we wrote about filmmaker Brian Knappenberger's efforts to put together a documentary about Aaron Swartz. It wasn't going to be a "memorial," but rather an "investigative documentary" into Swartz's story and the lawsuit against him. Earlier this year, a very rough cut of the film made it to Sundance, where it received a tremendous reaction. In January, Knappenberger also put together some clips for a short trailer including some of Swartz's comments about the NSA, to help highlight "The Day We Fight Back." Now the film is finally getting close to an actual release, and a very powerful trailer has been released.
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If anyone would like to extract the video and upload it to a hosting site, please feel free -- it looks like many of would appreciate it. (or are movie trailer copyrights enforced?)
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This movie, according to its Kickstarter page, will be released under a Creative Commons license. I don't know about the trailer.
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My Flash is 10.3.183.90 whereas most of the rest of the world is on 13 something, and there was an update yesterday for a critical issue. Mine did not update since there is no new version that will work on my old ThinkPad under Linux.
Hope this helps.
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but everyones ignorant!
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So what? This will just end like Tienanmen Square. Or Occupy Wallstreet.
The state-controlled media will report about terrorists/nutcases protesting somewhere, then about the protests getting dissolved or people losing interest while a large number of protesters lands themselves in the hospital with self-inflicted wounds and will serve prison time for assault on police officers who managed to escape with minor lacerations (if any) almost miraculously.
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-Marie Antoinette
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Should also have some of the EFF guys there too, as well as our regular experts on cryptography, the law, copyright trolling etc.
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Trailer on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvsxnOg0bJY
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No, you pathetic loser, he killed himself.
And no amount of spin will ever change that.
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Moron.
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Nice of you to drop by and share your thoughts on the matter.
Funny how much those techdork douchebags scare the piss out of you militant hawk-wannabes, isn't it. :)
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I see the following:
My guess would be a takedown notice of Disney Corporation.
Really, the U.S.A. deserves what it gets. Stop praying to the interests of big money. It does not indicate much more than whose ancestry including himself were most consistently reckless in grabbing stuff that was not supposed to be proprietary but a national treasure. Starting with the land and wildlife, and nowadays culture and knowledge.
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has gone through two different versions, one which says just that and is black, and one as you describe with disney alternates shown...
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There is one bright light at the end of the tunnel though.
This process has run its course numerous times on earth.
Its called fascism and its the death spasm of every society that uses wealth as a measure of a person's importance.
Its the way all money based civilizations disintegrate and dissolve.
The rich get richer and richer and eventually join forces to buy the reigns of power, in order to get even richer still.
But that is their only drive - more wealth.
They don't really have a plan beyond "get stinking rich and live like gods".
The system will fall apart around them, as you can see already happening, but they won't spend the money to repair it because they want to horde that money away in their offshore accounts. They think that vast wealth will keep them safe after everything falls apart.
It always has in the past.
Once this nation falls, they believe all they have to do is go live in another nation and their wealth will buy them security anywhere they want to go.
It always has in the past.
Like rats, they always depart the sinking vessel before it goes under, so all we have to do is wait till they destroy the money based infrastructure and leave, then build something useful and functional that does not use money as a measure of a human's life as the basis for that new society.
Remember, the wealthy will have horded away all the money in America by that point and will take it all with them when they leave anyway. So a non-monetary system is a necessity.
Big task certainly, but since the public has already begun to take over most of the really vital functions of the delinquent fascist government - out of simple necessity - it should not be an un-surmountable challenge.
And in truth, there really isn't any other choice. There is nothing that can be done to stop the process once the fascists have taken over the political, financial and industrial structures. They will literally milk it to death.
Build another money based economy and you will only start the same curve downhill once again. The Money-run is a fun ride for some - the most ruthless and opportunistic, selfish and self-serving criminals among us - but the end is inevitable and always the same for the rest.
And the only way you can start a new civilization, is after the old one is dissolved, so the optimist says "they're doing us all a favor by destroying the system of corruption that currently masquerades as government.".
Lets break the cycle and build something lasting for a change.
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Fuck reddit now
the uklraine crisis i lost 3000 karma points...tell me that isnt coordinated....
fuck you americans ( and i'm not russian )
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The United States of Corruption
Amazing how fast the government can act when it needs to protect its own ass.
Another sad day for America.
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Funny, because Yahoo keeps talking about building its own YouTube and it can't even get basic videos to work right.
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I can almost see the wheels of Just-ICE turning, as they try and think up ways of turning this thing around.
It is literally up to the people now.
After all they say you get the government you deserve.
Aaron absolutely did not deserve this government.
I'm pretty certain that very, very, few Americans do.
Viva la Evolution!!
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