Michael Moore’s newest film, Sicko, which takes on the health-care industry, hit the web’s peer-to-peer sites last week. Now it appears that the whole thing is on YouTube. Miramax, the studio behind the picture, has not commented, but a few years back, Moore said he was OK with people pirating copies of his films just as long as they weren’t making a profit off it:
In a July 2004 interview with the Scottish newspaper Sunday Herald, Moore said, “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. I would oppose that … I do well enough already, and I made this film because I want the world to change. The more people who see it the better, so I’m happy this is happening.”