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...
But the fact is, we're all creative. We come up with weird and interesting ideas all the time. The biggest difference between 'creators' isn't their imagination - it's how hard they work. Ideas are easy. Doing stuff is hard. This was the second Cory Doctorow book I read, the first having been Litt...
Pirate Cinemaby Cory DoctorowTrent 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 puni...
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. Poor book! It took me quite a while...
If you haven't yet read Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig, you can read this book instead. It's the same tract, just turned into fiction. The characters and story do help keep you interested though, as they are both compelling. There are definitely passages where entire paragraph arguments are pull...
Is it me or is this book screaming (a cross between) Hunger Games and Supernatural? You know? A girl with an estranged mother and a younger sister that means the world to her? The resistance? Angels who doesn't know why they're doing what they're doing? An agnostic archangel who has never talked to ...
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