“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 labour. I would oppose that,” he said.

“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.”

Reportedly, director Quentin Tarantino is another in Moore's court on this matter.

Knowledge and artistic works should be shared freely – crass tenets of shallow materialism should not prevail here. Unless an entity wishes to profit financially from such a distribution.