It includes interviews with The Pirate Bay members Fredrik Neij (tiamo), Gottfrid Svartholm (anakata) and Peter Sunde (brokep) that were later re-used by agreement in the documentary film Good Copy Bad Copy, as well as with Piratbyrån members Rasmus Fleischer (rsms), Johan (krignell) and Sara Andersson (fraux).

[5] The Guardian's James Flint called Part One "at heart a traditionally structured 'talking heads' documentary" with "amusing stylings" from film-makers who "practice what they preach.

[10] Thematically, Part 2 "examines the technological and enforcement end of the copyright wars, and on the way that using the internet makes you a copier, and how copying puts you in legal jeopardy.

Part 2 draws parallels between the impact of the printing press and the internet in terms of making information accessible beyond a privileged group or "controllers".

[citation needed] The new edition of Steal This Film was part of the Official Selection and in competition at the 2009 Roma Fiction Festival (Factual strand).

[citation needed] Steal This Film was nominated for the Ars Electronica 2008 Digital Communities prize[22] and was a semi-finalist in online video-streaming site Babelgum's 2008 competition.

This produced millions of downloads for the film[citation needed] and catapulted it to wide recognition on the Internet after it hit Digg, Slashdot, Reddit and other online centres of attention.

Due to great interest in the documentary by volunteer translators, Part Two has subtitles in Czech, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, French, Finnish, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and Ukrainian.

As well as funding from BRITDOC, the Steal This Film producers continues to use a loose version of the Street Performer Protocol,[citation needed] collecting voluntary donations via a PayPal account, from the website.

[32] For future financing, director Jamie King (producer) has written that he and the League of Noble Peers propose, a "post IP compensation system" which "allows viewers and listeners to make voluntary payments right from the client in which they play media.