Pirate Cinema, Cory Doctorow
Pirate Cinema, Cory Doctorow
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Pirate Cinema

Author: Cory Doctorow

Narrator: Bruce Mann

Unabridged: 13 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/02/2012


Synopsis

Trent McCauley is sixteen, brilliant, and obsessed with one thing: making movies on his computer by sampling and reassembling footage he downloads from the net. In the near-future Britain where Trent is growing up, this is more illegal than ever; if you’re caught three times, your entire household is cut off from the Internet for a year, with no appeal.

Trent is sure this won’t happen to him; he’s too clever. Except it does, and it nearly destroys his family—his father’s living, his mother’s health, and his kid sister’s studies all depend on Internet access. Shamed and shattered, Trent runs away to London where he learns how to stay alive on the streets. This drops him straight into the city’s always-rambunctious street scene, a demimonde of artists and activists who are fighting a new bill that will criminalize digital copying even more harmless than Trent’s, making millions of people felons at a stroke. The government is in the grip of a few wealthy media conglomerates. But the powers that be haven’t entirely reckoned with the power of a movie to change people’s minds. . . .

About The Author

Cory Doctorow is a coeditor of Boing Boing and a columnist for multiple publications. He was named one of the Web’s twenty-five “influencers” by Forbes magazine and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Look for Corey’s novels Little Brother, For the Win, and Makers also available on audio from Listening Library.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lisa (libraryink) on June 07, 2012

Cory Doctorow knocks another one out of the park in Pirate Cinema. Here he mixes existing (and already frightening) laws in England punishing those who download copyrighted music or videos by cutting off the family's Internet access with some that haven't yet come to pass but certainly could. I hope......more

Goodreads review by Kara on July 14, 2015

I don’t really know how to start this review, because this is a very important topic for me. It should be an important topic for anyone who loves books. Although Pirate Cinema concerns not-so-exaggerated attempts to stop people from copying and remixing movies, much of the same rhetoric around copyr......more

Goodreads review by William on October 05, 2012

I'm a long term Cory Doctorow fan, having loved Makers, Little Brother, For the Win, and Eastern Standard Tribes. Set in the near-term future, Pirate Cinema is essentially about the struggle against oppressive copyright laws. In Pirate Cinema, like Little Brother, we have another young adult protagoni......more

Goodreads review by Josh on April 02, 2013

Trent McCauley is a teen addicted to illegal downloading and splicing cinema to create ‘remixes’ of his favourite actors’ performances into a single short film send-up. However, the government doesn’t get the humour, and suspend his access to the internet which not only causes Trent grief but also p......more

Goodreads review by Matija on December 27, 2012

I really dig Cory Doctorow. He is fighting the good fight on behalf of us all. He is one of the few individuals in the world who has the clout to appear in mainstream media in order to talk about copyright issues, a task which would otherwise be left completely in the hands of bigcorp mouthpieces. T......more