The Internet dates more quickly than almost any other contemporary cultural signifier. This is what gave The Social Network much of its leverage: the fact that it was a period film about things that had happened six or seven years previously. Swedish director Simon Klose's absorbing, stirringly indignant but also rather melancholic documentary about the industry-speared decline and fall of the world's biggest file sharing website has a similar effect. Torrents? File-sharing? The Pirate Bay? It all feels like ancient history. Which perhaps proves the film's main point: that in the end, a system with an unlimited appetite and budget for litigation won out against the cyber-libertarians.
