Cory Doctorow
Canadian-born Cory Doctorow has held policy positions with Creative Commons and the Electronic Frontier Foundation and been a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Southern California. He is a co-editor of the popular weblog BoingBoing (boingboing.net), which receives over three million visitors...
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Canadian-born Cory Doctorow has held policy positions with Creative Commons and the Electronic Frontier Foundation and been a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Southern California. He is a co-editor of the popular weblog BoingBoing (boingboing.net), which receives over three million visitors a month. His science fiction has won numerous awards, and his YA novel LITTLE BROTHER spent seven weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.
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Well, it did it. This book defeated me. There's a point about a third of the way through the story where a new IP law has been passed and a bunch of kids get brought up on piracy charges and found guilty. And our main character (paraphrased) muses that of COURSE the kids were found guilty, because...
Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow Pirate Cinema is a coming-of-age story within a not-too-distant-future dystopia in which corporations have succeeded in controlling technology and the media. Trent McCauley is a young teen who is obsessed with creating his own films. He uses illegal content scoured fro...
Pirate CinemaActual rating 3-3.5 stars, +0.5 Doctorow fangirl bonus addedHaving re-read Little Brother a few months before starting Pirate Cinema and finding it just as enticing and engrossing as the first time around, this book had its competition cut out for it. I already felt sorry for the poor b...
Really enjoyed this book, though it felt like some jump cuts moved from one bit of story to another. The whole mosquito hat thing was way too convenient when dropped into the story quite a ways in and then hacked just a chapter or two later.I thought the characters were a little more believable than...
Leave it to Cory Doctorow to write an smashingly brilliant, action filled, novel about copyright. Written about an uncomfortably possible eminent future Pirate Cinema provokes thought while it entertains. On top of spinning a story from a subject many of us remain ignorant or at least thoroughly c...