Hollywood director Lexi Alexander largely criticizes the MPAA and its war on piracy, saying that teenagers hacking Hollywood security features is much more entertaining than most of the blockbusters. Alexander said that sometimes piracy is necessary due to country content restrictions, and everyone should have the freedom of access to content.

While Hollywood spends thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours on security features like IP block, DRM and so on, some piracy kid can undo it for free within a couple of minutes, and this process will provide better entertainment for these kids than the very movie.

Lexi Alexander, a German living in the United States, faces difficulties in getting German news, and vice versa – while in Germany, it’s hard to get American shows. In these cases she resorts to piracy and doesn’t hide this fact. She says that when visiting the website of a German public TV channel, she sees a message saying that “copyright for this program doesn’t extend to the country of your current location”. The same happens when she tries to catch up with a US show in Germany.

Alexander also criticized Hollywood’s claims that piracy is causing massive losses. She pointed out that piracy has not been proven to hurt box-office numbers. On the contrary, some studies admit that file-sharing may have boosted the bottom line. What causes losses is tons of money spent on combating piracy – hundreds of millions of dollars. Although nobody will disclose these numbers, it is known that the entertainment industry spent $91 million lobbying for SOPA in one year alone. These is real money spent, and numbers speak for themselves, not the “potential loss” that most likely could have never happened.

Lexi Alexander is not endorsing piracy, because there are people out there like Mega’s founder Kim Dotcom, who lines his own pockets rather than playing Robin Hood. However, the Hollywood director wants to “at least reach out to the other side” and has demanded that one of The Pirate Bay founders, Peter Sunde, is freed from prison in Sweden.

Peter Sunde is known for being confined for his role in facilitating online piracy via the largest BitTorrent tracker in the world, The Pirate Bay, by a Stockholm district court in 2009 after two years on the run.