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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- 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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The documentary centers on the fate of Mitnick, who is claimed to have been misrepresented in the feature film Takedown (2000) produced by Miramax and adapted from the book by the same name by Tsutomu Shimomura and John Markoff, which is based on disputed events. The film also documents a number of computer enthusiasts who drive across the United States searching for Miramax representatives and demonstrating their discontent with certain aspects of the bootleg script of Takedown they had acquired. Several notable and iconic figures from the hacking community appear in the movie, including Phiber Optik (Mark Abene), Bernie S (Ed Cummings), Alex Kasper, and (director) Emmanuel Goldstein (Eric Corley). Freedom Downtime tries to communicate a different view of the hacker community from that usually shown by the mainstream media, with hackers being depicted as curious people who rarely intend to cause damage, driven by a desire to explore and conduct pranks.
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- pbpbsoil
- Apr 18, 2017
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- $25,000 (estimated)
- Runtime2 hours 1 minute
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