The Aaron Schwartz documentary
The Internet's Own Boy has been picked up for distribution.
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FilmBuff and Participant Media have partnered on a multi-platform release for The Internet’s Own Boy, filmmaker Brian Knappenberger’s (We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists) documentary on the late programming prodigy turned Reddit co-founder and internet activist Aaron Swartz.
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FilmBuff, Participant Pact On ‘The Internet’s Own Boy’ Docu On Hacktivist Aaron Swartz
Appropriately, many of those release platforms are digital. From Cory Doctorow on BoingBoing:
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Starting today, "The Internet's Own Boy," Brian Knappenberger's award-winning, acclaimed documentary about Aaron Swartz, is available as a Creative Commons-licensed (CC-BY-NC-SA) video download. You can stream the movie for $7 from most platforms, and for $10, you can buy it from Vimeo as a shareable, remixable download.
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Aaron Swartz documentary "The Internet's Own Boy" is a CC-licensed download today
That doesn't seem to be quite accurate; both the movie's homepage and Vimeo list it as becoming available on the 27th.
It's also making a limited theatrical run, including a showing in Vancouver this Saturday. Here's a local
review.
And here's the film's
homepage, which lists all the services streaming it.
I assume you're all going to go for the DRM-free rental or purchase on Vimeo?
