Pirate Cinema
Title | Pirate Cinema |
Year for Search | 2012 |
Authors | Doctorow, Cory [Efram](b. 1971) |
Date Published | 2012 |
Publisher | Tor |
Place Published | New York |
Keywords | Canadian author, English author, Male author |
Annotation | Young adult dystopia focusing on the control of the internet by media companies that get laws passed to criminalize and impose severe penalties on sampling and other common ways of using the internet. The focus of the novel is on artists and activists fighting a proposed new law that will criminalize other activities. |
Author Note | The author (b. 1971) was born and raised in Canada, lived for many years in England and became a U.K. citizen, and moved to the U.S. in 2015. |
Full Text | 2012 Doctorow, Cory [Efram] (b. 1971). Pirate Cinema. New York: Tor. Young adult dystopia focusing on the control of the internet by media companies that get laws passed to criminalize and impose severe penalties on sampling and other common ways of using the internet. The focus of the novel is on artists and activists fighting a proposed new law that will criminalize other activities. The author was born and raised in Canada, lived for many years in England and became a U.K. citizen, and moved to the U.S. in 2015. |