In "Pirate Cinema" by Cory Doctorow, the story follows Trent, a teenager who becomes a runaway after his family's internet access is suspended due to his illegal downloading activities. He joins a group of rebellious filmmakers in London who fight against oppressive copyright laws. The book explores themes of creation, copyright, intellectual freedom, and the consequences of challenging the establishment. The writing style is described as engaging but at times overly didactic, focusing heavily on the message of copyfighting and remix culture while lacking in plot development.
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Content warnings include themes of copyright infringement, homelessness, and some drug use.
Has Romance?
There is a medium level of romance present in the relationships developed through the protagonist's interactions, particularly with Jem.
From The Publisher:
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 to 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 single stroke.
Things look bad. Parliament is subject to the demands 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....
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About the Author:
Cory Doctorow is a co-editor of Boing Boing and a columnist for multiple publications including the Guardian, Locus, and Publishers Weekly. He was named one of the Web's twenty-five influencers by Forbes magazine and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. His award-winning YA novel Little Brother was a New York Times bestseller. Born and raised in Canada, he currently lives in London.
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