Positive Piracy Panel

I’m taking part in a panel dis­cus­sion on Pos­i­tive Piracy at the mighty EIFF next week. We’ll be talk­ing about the way cinephiles are increas­ingly turn­ing to the web to get their fix of rare and cult cinema, the impact of dig­i­tal dis­tri­b­u­tion on future film-​making, how Bit­tor­rent is way cool, and stuff like that.

The other pan­elists are Alex Orr, whose bonkers-​sounding horror flick Blood Car is screen­ing at the Fes­ti­val, Mike Gub­bins of Screen Inter­na­tional, Mark Adams from the ICA and Eddy Leviten from the slightly scary Fed­er­a­tion Against Copy­right Theft, who should ensure that the dis­cus­sion doesn’t end up being a big file-​sharing love-​in. So will I, in fact—despite the two ter­abytes of media obtained by ques­tion­able means cur­rently lit­ter­ing my hard drives, I’m pretty ambiva­lent about, you know, nick­ing things people have worked hard to make.

If you’d like to come along, it’s at 6pm on Wednes­day 25th June at the Tra­verse and costs a measly fiver.

In other EIFF news, vote for Hannah in The Herald Fash­ion Awards! Should she win, I will be demand­ing a credit for spend­ing count­less hours wait­ing for her out­side the chang­ing rooms of fash­ion­able bou­tiques.

Posted at 6pm on 14/06/08 by Jack Mottram to the links category.
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