It is OK to Pirate “Lange Flate Ballær II”

After the leak of the Norwegian movie “Lange Flate Ballær II” onto several BitTorrent sites the movie director Harald Zwart said that it’s an honor that someone took the effort to record it in a movie theater.

The movie was posted on Norway’s largest BitTorrent sites early Sunday morning. In a couple of hours, hundreds of people had already downloaded the movie.

Zwart told Nettavisen.no: “I think it’s perfectly fine that some people choose to post the movie online. It shows that people are interested in it”, “In the IT society of today it’s naive to think that this wouldn’t happen. We consider it a huge compliment. After all, what has happened is that someone has smuggled a camera into a theater and then recorded the whole movie”.

Zwart doesn’t hold a grudge against the people who share his movie online though, but he made some negative comments about the quality of the recording, “The movie was filmed using a video camera in a local cinema somewhere. The quality is bad, and the movie definitely is better in theaters”.