From the New York Times bestselling author of Little Brother,
Cory Doctorow, comes Pirate Cinema, a new tale of a brilliant hacker
runaway who finds himself standing up to tyranny.
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 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….
Cory Doctorow, comes Pirate Cinema, a new tale of a brilliant hacker
runaway who finds himself standing up to tyranny.
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 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….