Pirate Cinema
Ratings17
Average rating3.6
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Ratings17
Average rating3.6
In a dystopian, near-future Britain, sixteen-year-old Trent, obsessed with making movies on his computer, joins a group of artists and activists who are trying to fight a new bill that will criminalize even more harmless Internet creativity.
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This book has a story line about a teenager becoming an adult, but more importantly, woven through the story is a warning about ridiculous copyright law and powerful media conglomerates . . . and the hope that citizens will wake up enough to stop these laws before it's too late.
It took me awhile to get through this. I mean I think copyright reform is important but I kind of skimmed a lot of the legalese. I did like the slightly future setting with raised stakes for copyright infringement–it's easy to see a world where copyright violations get your internet disconnected for a year, and a world where that's truly a dire punishment. I liked reading about Trent/Cecil's adventures in homelessness and dumpster diving. I kind of wondered if it's glamorizing homelessness? But people do say you can get awesome stuff from dumpster diving. OK, that's not really the point of the book, just a social consciousness concern that flitted through my mind while reading.
This might appeal slightly more to the hacker/vidder crowd? Or to the homeless? IDK.
This book started off kinda preachy. I've heard/watched some of doctorows google talks about the new signed bootloader / hardware stuff. I think he spoke way better at google.
I see now why it was done.
The book was great. I loved the characters, and the story.
If you are a fan of his other books, i'd highly recommend it.
