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Pirate Cinema (novel)

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Pirate Cinema
AuthorCory Doctorow
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
PublishedTor Books
Publication date
2012
Publication placeUS
Media typeBook
Awards2013 Prometheus Award
ISBN978-0-765-32908-0

Pirate Cinema is a 2012 novel by Canadian-British writer Cory Doctorow. The novel is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license and is available free on the author's website.

The novel is set in a dystopian near-future Britain where the government is effectively controlled by media corporations. The main character, Trent McCauley, has had his internet access cut for reassembling downloaded films on his computer and, living rough on the streets of London, is trying to fight the introduction of a new draconian copyright law.

Pirate Cinema won the 2013 Prometheus Award.[1]

The US hardcover is 384 pages long.[2]

This book was also featured as an e-book in the Humble eBook Bundle.[3] The bundle raised more than $1.2 million, with customers paying an average amount of $14.29 for the bundle.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "July, 2013: Prometheus Award Winners".
  2. ^ Doctorow, Cory (2012), Pirate Cinema, p. 416, ISBN 978-0-765-32908-0
  3. ^ "Introducing the Humble eBook Bundle! | Humble Mumble". blog.humblebundle.com. Archived from the original on 2012-10-14.
  4. ^ "Humble Bundle | Prior Bundle Statistics". Archived from the original on 2013-09-09. Retrieved 2013-02-02.

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