![]() I am about 95% aligned with Doctorow's beliefs on copyright. But the powers that be haven’t entirely reckoned with the power of a movie to change people’s minds. The government is in the grip of a few wealthy media conglomerates. 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. ![]() Shamed and shattered, Trent runs away to London where he learns how to stay alive on the streets. ![]() 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. ![]() 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 McCauley is sixteen, brilliant, and obsessed with one thing: making movies on his computer by sampling and reassembling footage he downloads from the net. ![]()
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