On BoingBoing today, Cory Doctorow writes: “The Creative Commons-licensed version of The Internet’s Own Boy, Brian Knappenberger’s documentary about Aaron Swartz, is now available on the Internet Archive, which is especially useful for people outside of the US, who aren’t able to pay to see it online…. The Internet Archive makes the movie available to download or stream, in MPEG 4 and Ogg. There’s also a torrentable version.”
According to the film summary, the new documentary “depicts the life of American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz. It features interviews with his family and friends as well as the internet luminaries who worked with him. The film tells his story up to his eventual suicide after a legal battle, and explores the questions of access to information and civil liberties that drove his work.”
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Who the fuck cares.
I do
I do
Me too
I care!
Important movie. I,m going to pass this on to everyone I know.
Me too… Dean ur a fool
The Best Documentary.
I will definitely share and show it to all my friends and all students in my Institute.
it is also available on youtube http://youtube.com/watch?v=vXr-2hwTk58
I care!
Is there any english subtitle for deaf ppl ?
When Bouazizi committed suicide it sparked a revaluation. Swartz’s death should be no different. It dramatically highlighted the threats we all face when it comes to our basic civil liberties. It wad a painful wake up call that our law system is in need of drastic reform.
It’s because people like you “dean” that the world is in this f*cked up state…
Just watched it on Aussie tv. WOW, everyone should watch & appreciate just how brilliant & so right that young man was. Long live activists
Sorry sir, but just like the rest of that directed ourself to this online web page and… just like the rest of us who cared enough to read it’s information all the way to the comments section and… just like the rest of us who cared enough to submit a comment when we got there… anyone that truely does not care would not be here at this web page caring to do any of these things…just like us. I believe you do care enough to be here online and no one has ever did you the favor of letting you know the cool kids quit acting too cool for school years ago… but, I AM going to do you a favor. I am going to be the one to make sure you are aware that even though your comment was completely pointless, it was not entirely useless. We all have learned ALOT from what you said-THAT YOU JUST AREN’T COOL !
Best regards
-The Cool Kid