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)
Storyline
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
Featured review
A Free Kevin Presentation
Freedom Downtime is basically a personal video record of the "Free Kevin" campaign to free notorious hacker Kevin Mitnick. It's not really about hacking at all and the comparisons to Michael Moore are only appropriate in that the filmmaker confronts those who have been deemed as bad guys. Other than that, Freedom Downtime shares nothing in common with Michael Moore films and is an interesting, albeit scary, look at the justice system in the USA.
It should be an interesting film for anyone who remembers the "Free Kevin" campaign that was once so prevalent on the internet. It's full of that dry humor so appreciated by hacker culture, which adds a little hacker flavor to an otherwise serious subject. Those not familiar with Mitnick may not appreciate the film as much, but they'll still come away with an inside glimpse into serious problems with the justice system and the corporate media's willingness to ignore the truth when it wishes to do so. Of course, this won't come as a big surprise today, when trust in the corporate media is at an all-time low and people have turned to the internet as a result.
It should be an interesting film for anyone who remembers the "Free Kevin" campaign that was once so prevalent on the internet. It's full of that dry humor so appreciated by hacker culture, which adds a little hacker flavor to an otherwise serious subject. Those not familiar with Mitnick may not appreciate the film as much, but they'll still come away with an inside glimpse into serious problems with the justice system and the corporate media's willingness to ignore the truth when it wishes to do so. Of course, this won't come as a big surprise today, when trust in the corporate media is at an all-time low and people have turned to the internet as a result.
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- Mar 3, 2006
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- $25,000 (estimated)
- Runtime2 hours 1 minute
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