'Fahrenheit' dies slowly at Box Office...

[NRKofOver]

I would think if you're looking for a 'slant' the exact opposite should be expressed. Michael Moore knows the movie is going to diminish at the box office, therefore he's encouraging file sharing as a future excuse to the movie's overall exposure and value. It's so easy for him to say now that they gave the movie away in the interest of 'truth' instead of profit. Brilliant move really.

My music for the disenchanted masses

[Seismic Anamoly]

For him, maybe...but not for the distributors who will be out major bucks.



If he did encourage it, the lawsuits will come a flowin'.



Ah, well...

[Seismic Anamoly]

At least it will this week, I think...why pay for what you can get for free on most any file-sharing network??

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NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) -- The war between Michael Moore and his critics has escalated as a Web site targeting the "Fahrenheit 9/11" director posting a link to an illegal "Fahrenheit" file download. In the process, it also attacked the filmmaker's stance on copyright law.



A June 27 posting on the site www.MooreWatch.com invites visitors to download the film. It quotes Moore, though it doesn't cite a source, as encouraging such downloading by saying: "I don't agree with the copyright laws, and I don't have a problem with people downloading the movie and sharing it with people. As long as they're not doing it to make a profit, you know, as long as they're not trying to make a profit off my labor. I would oppose that."



Since May, there have been reports of downloadable versions of Moore's movie on such file-sharing networks as Limewire and eDonkey, concurrent with "Fahrenheit's" premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. But according to BigChampagne, an online media measurement firm, "Fahrenheit" took the file-sharing networks by storm Sunday evening.



"The first copies of 'Fahrenheit' -- quite good-quality in the estimation of people who track these things -- began to leak on Sunday night," BigChampagne founder and CEO Eric Garland said. "It's noteworthy that it took so long to show up in a big way in the file-sharing network, which is probably attributable to the fact that the film was on relatively few screens. The copy in circulation is a CAM version (a camcorder copy captured from an actual theater projection of the film)."

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Poor Mikey....

[Galmin]

So "Fahrenheit" is shared?



It doesn't surprise me, all major films are

[LarreeMP3]

Haven't seen it yet. I'll pay for Dodgeball and sneak into F 9/11 for free one day next week.



BUSH 2004