torrentfreak.com — The award winning Canadian documentary 'The Corporation' has been released on BitTorrent for free. Filmmaker Mark Achbar just released an updated "official" torrent of it. Everyone is free to download, watch, discuss, and share it.
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tuxbuntaNov 22, 2006
Anyone who thinks this 'documentary' is good needs to watch the South Park Walmart episode. Corporations rise because we buy their products. Plain and f***ing simple. You don't like it. Well there are many communes in the US where you can get back in touch with the earth, and so on. Either that or stop b****ing and drive your cheap mass produced car, eat your cheap mass produced food, watch your cheap mass produced tvs, and sleep in your cheap mass produced beds.
zeeroNov 22, 2006
corporations control what you wear, what you watch on tv, what cars you drive, how much you pay for food, gas, housing... its harder to name what they DONT control
isifunded911Nov 22, 2006
Not only are corporations pathological, since they are not democratic structures, their value systems are fundamentally based on numbers, not on human and cooperative values, and their goal is to succesfully fight a war (economic), but capitalism in essence is necrophile: its goal is to turn life and the Earth into money/capital, which is either dead (paper, objects,) or virtual. Human beings have no HUMAN value inside capitalism. This is why they may very well be replaced by robots if capitalists decide they are more practical...and not for the benefit of human beings, which may be eliminated by the capitalists...and eventually the robots may eliminate everyone.You are not a number. Capitalism disagrees. How can you be capitalist? By not being human.
apache2Nov 22, 2006
TINSTAAFL
mrthi3fNov 22, 2006
I'm willing to donate not only because it is a very interesting movie, but because they posted it on bit torrent perhaps in spite of large corporations.
vguardNov 23, 2006
Fascism IS Corporationism...Just look at who's "sponsoring" our police state.
tuxbuntaNov 23, 2006
"corporations control what you wear, what you watch on tv, what cars you drive, how much you pay for food, gas, housing... its harder to name what they DONT control"Oh, I thought I made those decisions. Well thank you corporations for giving me the Office, cheap gas, and food everywhere I turn.
monofonikNov 29, 2006
Yes, one sided indeed. I wholeheartedly disagree with you. They interviewed that guy from Interface, the guy from Shell, tonnes of schills for the corporations that had their chance to speak their piece in the film. I think the film was not one sided, but maybe its actually a one sided issue.
markachbarDec 14, 2006
There are multiple reasons why I posted the film as a torrent. First, I want the largest possible global audience for the film. Many people are just too poor to rent or buy it or live in countries where we have no distribution and I wanted them to have access. Torrents are brilliant for that. Second, I care about the quality of the finished work that reaches people. I also prefer the feature version of the film. So if all this file sharing is going on, I at least wanted to offer people the best possible quality and what I felt is the best version. I also wanted to tell people about the DVD and the 8 hours of extras it has to offer. 5 1/2 of those hours are 165 clips that are not in the film, of all the interview subjects, with no commentary, no music, no manipulation. Some people like these clips better than the film itself because they're just the straight goods. Anyway, at some point it just started to bug me that other people were sharing my work, not just with a few friends, but with tens of thousands of strangers, via bit torrents, edonkey, now emule, and all the rest, without my knowledge or permission. Extrapolating from bittorrent counters, a conservative estimate is that 500,000 people have shared the film. They don't have the right to do that. They have the technical ability, obviously, but that doesn't give them the right. Not without my permission. That's just my opinion. In any case, it was going on and it will continue to go on whether I like it or not, so I figured the sensible thing to do would be to put my best quality-best version-torrent out there along with a little message at the beginning telling people that we would very much appreciate some financial support, (www.thecorporation.com) because the film still hasn't broken even yet, although numerous distributors and theatres and stores and video rental businesses have made quite a few dollars from it. Even the Canadian government agencies that supported it are in profit. But never confuse gross and net. I put in all my savings—more than $300,000 over the years—to pay for budget overages, 35mm blow-up, DVD production, website, and ongoing promotion and outreach. At one point I even put my house on the line. This isn't a sob story, they're just economic facts. I still manage to live a comfortable, middle-class existence thanks mainly to the ongoing generosity of my parents. But it's important for the film to eventually break even, and to make a little extra to support our promotion and outreach efforts, and to get to the point that our profit-sharing plan kicks in for a number of the key creative people who worked on the film for less than they were worth in the commercial marketplace. This isn't a Hollywood film calculated to exploit your baser instincts. And it's definitly not the product of a publicly-traded transnational media corporation. It's made by hard working indepenent filmmakers—about 200 of us in production and me almost 9 years now—who risked a lot to put out a perspective on a set of problems that affect us all. Clearly that effort has some value or this discussion wouldn't be taking place. If you support the film, support the filmmakers who made it.Thanks!
jahiscallinJul 15, 2007
great movie, download it!