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Freedom Downtime Page #5
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- Year:
- 2001
- 121 min
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lt might change a lot of things
in a negative way.
He's trying so hard to at least
get a trial and then this comes up...
where he's constantly being defamed.
You never know who you might see
when you're standing outside a film studio.
Kevin Bacon had no interest whatsoever.
But radio personality Lazlow did.
With the proliferation of the news...
TV news journalism like Primetime Live...
and these shows
that completely distort the facts...
and shows like 60 Minutes
being forced to go in the same direction...
people don't knowthe facts about the case.
They don't knowthe facts about hackers.
l'd say that hackers...
are the communists of the 1990s...
where, basically, if anybody says ''hacker''...
all of a sudden you've got this demon 666 across
your head.
Nobody actually understands any of it.
What l do in my part, on the radio...
with my syndicated show,
is try to get people to open their brains...
because l talk to a lot of old people,
because l'm on a lot of news talk stations.
When l can, l put Emmanuel or Bernie S.,
or anybody else on there...
to talk about the state of what's going on,
because nobody else will cover it.
in the mainstream media...
do so for profit,
like the guy that wrote the book.
The demonstrators say they have sent
a copy of this illicitly obtained script...
and that he absolutely hates it.
Miramax's parent, Disney,
may not like it either.
The controversy comes on the heels...
of the dumping of $43 million
in Disney stock...
by the Texas Board of Education.
The board's complaint: Miramax films
have too much sex and violence.
Miramax distorts the facts!
Was that Harvey Weinstein,
President of Miramax?
He didn't even get
a ''Stop Miramax'' brochure?
Of course we had a brochure for Harvey.
Okay, l'll talk to you later. Bye.
-What did they say?
-l don't know.
There she is.
That's the one who answered the phone.
She hung up on me yesterday
l got through.
They waved. Did you see them wave?
Miramax distorts the facts!
They said if you use a bullhorn...
or obstruct people's walkways,
you have to have a permit.
Miramax distorts the facts!
lf you continue to use that,
l'm gonna have to call the cops.
l think that three years is a long time
to be held without actually having a trial.
And l think that what Miramax is doing...
is going to jeopardize his right
to have a free and honest trial.
So that's why l'm out here protesting.
Thank you.
They all were aware of the thing
in front of the building in NewYork City.
They talked about it on the set,
asked me about it.
They said ''Did you talk to Emmanuel?
That's great.''
They were waving. They think it's fantastic.
And they all want Free Kevin stickers.
The whole crew.
lf you give me some, l will send it to them.
They will put them on their cars.
Hello, sir.
Do you know who Kevin Mitnick is?
Hello, sir.
Do you know who Kevin Mitnick is?
No, l do not.
Computer hacker who's been in jail
for three-and-a-half years without a trial.
Miramax has decided
The script is false.
lt makes him out to be a violent racist...
which he is not.
l want to know what you think about it.
When are they doing the film?
-They start shooting in a few weeks.
-Kevin Mitnick is great.
-How do l find out the truth?
-They should take him out of prison.
-Hold on, l want to talk to you.
-What's that?
My main thing is the only reason
he ended up running afoul of the law...
access to communications.
All you got is big corporations like Miramax
with access to communications.
FirstAmendment! Yeah!
This is inAmerica.
-He was in jail three years without a trial?
-He's still in jail.
on CNBC on Friday.
This happens a lot, though.
You always have unauthorized biographies
and stuff like that.
Where it's like, you have an autobiography...
you have an authorized biography.
-This is sort of like an unauthorized--
-This is going to be big.
-He hasn't had a trial yet?
-Hasn't had a trial yet.
Not only that, in the movie,
they already wrote that he had a trial.
-You ever hear of Kevin Mitnick?
-No. Who's that?
Well, if you're walking away, l really can't....
How did you guys get a hold of the script?
Okay. All right.
You're a lawyer.
lsn't it illegal if they're gonna slander him?
Can't they try and stop them
on legal grounds?
That's not right.They have to put a waiver--
l think they should hold the film
until after he's had a fair trial.
l mean, it happens.
lt happened, unfortunately
You know, l don't think it should be....
Obviously, it's probably not legal
to have a lawsuit against Miramax.
l think they should have to wait
until he's had a fair trial.
And also they shouldn't use his real name.
lf they want to change the facts,
-Make it a fictional story.
-Three-and-a-half years is a long time.
Think about what you've done
for the last three-and-a-half years.
while all that stuf was happening.
For just that. Just for copying software.
l've copied software.
-What did he do? He hacked.
-He hacked.
l would like to know your opinion...
on the slandering in this film.
Miramax sucks. So, like, Free Kevin!
l can't talk sh*t about a movie
l haven't seen or read the script of.
But the one relevant thing that l could say..
a witch-hunt sort of hysterical mentality..
vis-a-vis hacking, you know.
People are very quick to fly off the handle
and condemn as terrorists...
people who are, you know,
exploring a newtechnology landscape...
in a way that they don't understand.
-Definitely.
-That's as far as l can go not having seen it.
Not only did we find a receptive bunch
at local theaters...
they even started to do our work for us.
New York was great.
But it was only the start.
New York was great.
But it was only the start.
We had to travel to get to the right people.
So we put together a camera crew...
and made sure none of us had anything
planned for the next several weeks.
We charted out a course,
and headed to the airport.
That's where we got our economy-sized
rental car with unlimited mileage.
The plan was to go
to Wilmington, North Carolina...
where filming for Takedown
was about to begin.
On the way, we figured we'd make a detour
and stop at Defcon...
the annual hacker convention in Las Vegas.
lf we were going to do that,
we should stop in San Diego...
to say hi to Tsutomu Shimomura...
to stop using Kevin Mitnick as a cash cow.
And if we did that,
it would be rude not to visit John Markof...
to ask him to inject some accuracy
Since we were suddenly adding
we might as well visit
some of the corporations...
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