a pirate-and-circulate campaign was conducted in protest against the ban (get-a-free-copy-only-if-you-promise-to-pirate-and-make-5-copies). over 10,000 free video cds of the film were distributed in india during this campaign, which ended in dec. 2004. final solution was offered free to anhad for their campaigns; it was included in their anthology titled "in defence of our dreams". subscribers of several journals/mags also got a copy of the film free of cost. these included communalism combat (ed : teesta setalvad and javed anand), samayik varta (ed : yogendra yadav), janmat and several smaller journals.