Download Fahrenheit 9/11 Here

October 29, 2004 6:33 AM

Download Fahrenheit 9/11 HereThis guy wants you to see the Moore film and is willing to suffer a possible lawsuit in order to get it to you. Free. "I'll see how my bandwidth holds up. Here is the initial release of my posting of Fahrenheit 9/11. It's big. Its 650 megs. So - if you are on a slow connection - don't even bother. Go rent the DVD. But if you have DSL or better - here it is."
posted by Postroad (24 comments total)

the movie's been all over P2P networks since, like, the day after it came out, Posty
posted by matteo at 6:46 AM on October 29, 2004

Somewhat related, I just saw this on FactCheck.org:

Media Fund Twists the Truth More Than Michael Moore
Radio ad claims most air traffic was grounded when bin Laden's family was allowed to leave. Not true. In fact, the FBI questioned 22 of them and found no links to terrorism.
posted by dhoyt at 6:46 AM on October 29, 2004

So... basically it's a post about how people can illegally download copyrighted material off the internet.

Is the list of XXX passwords coming up next? I'm liking this Metafilter=SuprNova angle.
posted by XQUZYPHYR at 7:31 AM on October 29, 2004

No lawsuit worries. Moore approves of the download as long as you don't resell it.
posted by destro at 7:39 AM on October 29, 2004

http://fish:[e-mail]
posted by mr.marx at 7:40 AM on October 29, 2004

in other news, 10 000 100 000 civilians dead in iraq
posted by mr.marx at 7:44 AM on October 29, 2004

ne1 got passwr0ds?!?
posted by naxosaxur at 8:06 AM on October 29, 2004

100 000 civilians dead in iraq

that'll teach them to have all those illegal wmd's
posted by matteo at 8:24 AM on October 29, 2004

"I'll see how my bandwidth holds up?" Has this guy heard of bittorrent? Michael Moore already said publicly that he didn't mind people file-trading the film as long as they don't try to sell it. So what we have here is one computer idiot posting a film the wrong way, months after this was ever news. In other words: a complete non-post.
posted by scarabic at 8:32 AM on October 29, 2004

Are we there yet?

(I'm too lazy.)
posted by oaf at 8:34 AM on October 29, 2004

Here ya go XQUZYPHYR . It's only 5000 or so but I imagine that'll keep you busy for a while.
posted by Mitheral at 8:39 AM on October 29, 2004

I downloaded it around the time it first came to theaters because I had a newborn and just paypaled Michael Moore the $9 for what I'd pay at Fandango.
posted by bkdelong at 8:40 AM on October 29, 2004

Believe it or not, there's a lot of people who have not used bittorrent, or have not ever got it to work, or find downloading pieces of files on Usenet cumbersome. (Me.) For those people, the wmv and avi files are helpful.

However, from what I can see, this is one of those "filmed in a theater with a camcorder" productions, so the quality is horrible. Now that it's on DVD, why would someone not just go rent it for $3?
posted by stupidsexyFlanders at 8:44 AM on October 29, 2004

I guess it's all the more shame that this fruit didn't rip a nice file from a DVD copy before he did this.

You should try bit torrent, SSF. It's architecture was specifically conceived for people in this guy's situation: have a big file to distribute globally, don't have a lot of bandwidth to do it. Because people downloading the file all simultaneously upload the pieces they've got so far to everyone else, effectively donating their bandwidth, the original file distributor only has to bear a small part of the load. It's a fantastic system that works incredibly well. I appreciate your reply, and I don't mean this as some kind of techno-elitism, but really, you should get on the bandwagon. It's going places that AVIs-on-webservers just can't go.
posted by scarabic at 9:03 AM on October 29, 2004

It's like people who use email to send large attachments.
posted by stbalbach at 9:38 AM on October 29, 2004

Has this guy heard of bittorrent?

If you had followed the link, you would've seen that yes, he has, and he recommends using it. But he also provides downloads for those who don't have it.
posted by pmurray63 at 9:39 AM on October 29, 2004

I'm simultaneously downloading 57 copies just to make sure i get a nice clean one.
posted by loquacious at 9:50 AM on October 29, 2004

"I'll see how my bandwidth holds up?" Has this guy heard of bittorrent? Michael Moore already said publicly that he didn't mind people file-trading the film as long as they don't try to sell it. So what we have here is one computer idiot posting a film the wrong way, months after this was ever news. In other words: a complete non-post.

ya gotta love it when scarabic gets all "jewish mother" on someone.
posted by quonsar at 9:57 AM on October 29, 2004

The copy on his site is a telesync. That is, it looks like it was filmed in a movie theater, but there is little or no flicker. The quality is very bad. Considering the DVD is out, he could post a DVD rip and get better quality (and probably get away with more compression too, resulting in a smalller file).
posted by Potsy at 11:09 AM on October 29, 2004

Being unemployed and too cheap to spend the money, I'm grateful to Marc for making this available online.
posted by alumshubby at 11:39 AM on October 29, 2004

PBS should put up Frontline: Rumsfeld's War up for download. It makes F9/11 look like a Bush swing state ad.

Actually, it should up available for download today, but they havent posted the link yet.

That program has to be the biggest indictment against this administration produced. Amazing stuff. Very eye-opening. Iraq is a mess because a civillian told the military to piss off. And Republicans want to give these peopel 4 more years?
posted by skallas at 12:09 PM on October 29, 2004

Everyone says Michael Moore doesn't mind if you download; however, does Michael Moore even own Fahrenheit 9/11? I doubt it; it's mostly likely owned by a studio, and they certainly haven't authorized any copyright infringment.
posted by reverendX at 12:23 PM on October 29, 2004

Anyone with 15 minutes to spare, and 1/2 way descent knowledge of Google can find the F9/11 screener or DVD-rip available for download off some bitTorrent network.

Here, I'll even get you started.
posted by SweetJesus at 1:16 PM on October 29, 2004

If you had followed the link, you would've seen that yes, he has, and he recommends using it. But he also provides downloads for those who don't have it.

Okay, so I see the link to BoingBoing's July 8th torrent page. This guy just feels it's necessary to add a WMV copy for straight download. Aha. Cool. I wonder if he'll mail me a color-inkjet-printed flip-book of the movie, too, with a soundtrack I can pop in my tape recorder. Cause, you know, I don't know how to install a codec.

:P

[shits pants, dies]
posted by scarabic at 2:37 PM on October 29, 2004