SICKO Piracy: If Only Health Care Were Free, Too
Michael Moore's new documentary SICKO - an exploration of the US's health insurance mess - has been pirated and downloadable for free over the weekend.
Bad news for the Weinstein brothers, who have (as Miramax and now as Weinstein Co.) long supported Moore's non fiction films. But director Moore says he's more interested in getting people talking about health care solutions. The New York Times quotes him as saying, "I don’t agree with the copyright laws and I don’t have a problem with people downloading the movie and sharing it with people as long as they’re not trying to make a profit off my labor."
The film went over well at the Cannes Film Festival, and the issue is a hot one in the upcoming US presidential election. (My home state of Massachusetts has just begun a program of universal health insurance: it's better than nothing. But it isn't cheap.)
Read more about SICKO.
The New York Times: here
Movie City News: David Poland