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"Slacker Uprising" Hits BitTorrent; Targeted for Takedown

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 2, 2008 - 11:23am.

Los Angeles - Lawyers representing Westside Productions, owners of the copyrights to Michael Moore's new documentary "Slacker Uprising," have sent a takedown notice seeking to have the film -- which Moore offered for free download to users in the U.S. and Canada -- removed from a BitTorrent file-sharing hub, TorrentFreak reported.