The activist corporate pranksters/video producers embrace peer-to-peer distribution for their film The Yes Men Fix the World.
Peer-to-peer distribution is turning out to be a lifeline for documentary filmmakers, and The Yes Men are pointing the way. P2P or peer-to-peer distribution is an efficient and inexpensive way to send large video files around the internet. While the technology is better known as a simple method for pirating music and movies, that easy accessibility can be used for legitimate reasons too. Political activists The Yes Men (http://theyesmen.org) turned to P2P distribution to get their latest documentary seen when other avenues were closed to them. The Yes Men Fix the World was made in 2009; it chronicles the pair playing button-down, deadpan, wildly irreverent pranks on powerful corporations and agencies, embarrassing Dow Chemical and Halliburton, among others. The documentary was first shown on HBO, which was a mixed blessing. http://tinyurl.com/6cgxyd2 _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
