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Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow

Book Information

TitlePirate Cinema
CreatorCory Doctorow
Year2012
PPI300
Pages303
LanguageEnglish
Mediatypetexts
SubjectCopyright, Cinema
Collectionfolkscanomy_miscellaneous, folkscanomy, additional_collections
Uploadereric
Identifierpirate_cinema
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Trent McCauley is sixteen, brilliant, and obsessed with one thing: making movies on his computer by reassembling footage from popular films he downloads from the net. In the dystopian near-future Britain where Trent is growing up, this is more illegal than ever; the punishment for being caught three times is that your entire household’s access to the internet is cut off for a year, with no appeal. Trent's too clever for that too happen. Except it does, and it nearly destroys his family. Shamed and shattered, Trent runs away to London, where he slowly he learns the ways of staying alive on the streets. This brings him in touch with a demimonde of artists and activists who are trying to fight a new bill that will criminalize even more harmless internet creativity, making felons of millions of British citizens at a stroke. Things look bad. Parliament is in power of a few wealthy media conglomerates. But the powers-that-be haven’t entirely reckoned with the power of a gripping movie to change people’s minds….Archived by Unglue.it