Cory Doctorow
Fiction D659p
Trent McCauley is sixteen, brilliant, and obsessed with one thing:
making movies on his computer by sampling and reassembling footage he
downloads from the net. In the near-future Britain where Trent is
growing up, this is more illegal than ever; if you’re caught three
times, your entire household is cut off from the Internet for a year,
with no appeal.
Trent is sure this won’t happen to him; he’s too clever. Except it does, and it nearly destroys his family—his father’s living, his mother’s health, and his kid sister’s studies all depend on Internet access.
Trent is sure this won’t happen to him; he’s too clever. Except it does, and it nearly destroys his family—his father’s living, his mother’s health, and his kid sister’s studies all depend on Internet access.
Shamed and shattered, Trent runs away to London where
he learns how to stay alive on the streets. This drops him straight into
the city’s always-rambunctious street scene, a demimonde of artists and
activists who are fighting a new bill that will criminalize digital
copying even more harmless than Trent’s, making millions of people
felons at a stroke.
Things look bad. The government is in the grip of a few wealthy media
conglomerates. But the powers that be haven’t entirely reckoned with
the power of a movie to change people’s minds. . . .
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