B-Side Relaunches, Pirates Rejoice

Austin's independent film distribution website B-Side is relaunching today, and as part of that, is offering the documentary "Pirate Radio USA" as a DRM-free download.

The doc, which was an audience favorite at last year's Austin Film Festival, is a riotous tour of the free radio underground (no Christian Slater or Samantha Mathis, but this is way cooler, we promise). B-Side chose "Pirate Radio" solely as a result of positive audience feedback—a concept which is pretty pirate, in and of itself.

B-Side's website has been redesigned to serve as a portal for grassroots distribution of movies like this one—the best products of independent film festivals around the world. This way, film freaks can see the new stuff which sometimes would have slipped through the cracks (er, walked the plank?) without this kind of distribution model. Long live the Internet!

Image from www.pirateradiousa.com.