Pirate Cinema

TitlePirate Cinema
Year for Search2012
AuthorsDoctorow, Cory [Efram](b. 1971)
Date Published2012
PublisherTor
Place PublishedNew York
KeywordsCanadian 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.