The Tribeca Film Festival is getting in on the online video act and

The RIAA and MPAA have been complaining about piracy of music and movies for years. They've sued individual users for exorbitant amounts of money and were a huge part of the driving force of SOPA & PIPA (some would say they were the only driving force). Their profits have been cut into and that's stealing, and they're going to make sure that anyone caught pirating content will end up receiving as much punishment as possible.

Fantastic news for films that played at the Sundance Film Festival and never got a distribution deal.

I've written quite a lot about Life In A Day over the course of the past year. If you're somehow not familiar with it by name, Life In A Day is the documentary shot by YouTube users, directed and edited by Kevin MacDonald, and produced by Hollywood director Ridley Scott

It’s hard to believe that Life In A Day began its existence over a year ago. It was June 24, 2010, and tens of thousands of YouTubers accepted Ridley Scott and director Kevin MacDonald’s challenge to film their everyday routines.

Life In A Day, the documentary from Kevin Macdonald, Ridley Scott, and thousands of amateur filmmakers–otherwise known as “the YouTube movie”–is coming to a movie theater near you this summer.