A feature length documentary about the Free Kevin movement and the hacker world.A feature length documentary about the Free Kevin movement and the hacker world.A feature length documentary about the Free Kevin movement and the hacker world.
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Mark Abene
- Self
- (as Phiber Optik)
Ed Cummings
- Self
- (as Bernie S.)
Robert Darlington
- Self
- (as The Professor)
Alexis Kasperavicius
- Self
- (as Alex Kasper)
Tsutomu Shimomura
- Self
- (archive footage)
Jeffrey Stanton
- Self
- (as Cellularguy)
Kevin Bacon
- Self
- (uncredited)
Rob Vincent
- Self
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaEditing was done on a 333MHz Macintosh G3 with about 500GB of disk space running EditDV, which was serious power at the time.
- Quotes
Goldstein, Emmanuel: ...We knew it wouldn't work. We always knew it wouldn't work. But that's what hacking has always been about since the beginning - doing things you knew wouldn't just because you had to.
- ConnectionsReferences Takedown (2000)
- SoundtracksThe Real Takedown
Performed by Theta Wave State
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An important documentary, though technically not perfect
This is an interesting documentary about a subject that is often ignored - the court's and police's lack of knowledge about anything connected to a network, and medias habit of twisting or ignoring facts when they see they can make more money. As a non-American, there are some things that I don't get, but over all the film is very good at telling us how things work, and in my country (Sweden), the events in this film might get another point of view, since the police raid on the pirate bay in April 2006, where many things got eerily similar to what happened to Mitnick.
In a film making point of view Freedom Downtime is lacking though, the editing could be better, and the sound mixing got some flaws (but I must say it was a long time since I saw the film, so I could remember incorrectly). Still, this is a must see for anyone interested in the hacker community, or the odd behaviour of the "justice".
In a film making point of view Freedom Downtime is lacking though, the editing could be better, and the sound mixing got some flaws (but I must say it was a long time since I saw the film, so I could remember incorrectly). Still, this is a must see for anyone interested in the hacker community, or the odd behaviour of the "justice".
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- $25,000 (estimated)
- Runtime2 hours 1 minute
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