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Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets Leaked
huh12312 writes "Illegal piraters have done it again. On Monday, the second movie in the acclaimed series of seven was leaked onto the internet to the horror of Warner Brothers. With so many blockbusters due out this holiday season this problem will only increase in the coming months." Also note that it will make millions and millions of dollars anyway. I'll probably be there opening night.
You've been able to buy the script at any bookstore for years now.
Was a million geeks all hitting Gnutella at the same time.
-- I wanna decide who lives and who dies - Crow T. Robot, MST3K
you could have saved us the trouble of looking for it on kazaa.
SIG:Slashdot: indymedia for nerds.
I've already downloaded Episode 3 off of Kazaa! ... Today is Friday, if you disagree then I don't care cause I'll soon be in Ireland and you won't. So there.
Illegal piraters?
Wow, President Bush reads Slashdot!
Forget trolling IRC for pirate info, just start come to Slashdot for all the news on the latest pirated releases! Doom III, Harry Potter, keep em coming Slashdot!
(sarcasm btw)
Also, wtf is a pirater?
Mother is the best bet and don't let Satan draw you too fast.
It's more like four geeks.
Harry's Chamber Pot of Secrets has leaked? Gross!
It starts small, theivery by sneeking popcorn and cokes from "the street" into the theater, then it just gets worse...
reading the script in the library or bookstore years before release...
stealing the whole movie before it appears magically on the silver screen! it is too much! we are a lawless society!
Eve Fairbanks says I drive a hybrid!LOL
A slashdot story for everytime a movie is leaked? I can understand Star Wars, but Harry Potter? What is the criteria for allowing leaked movie news to be posted on slashdot since its a pretty common event anymore? I can see the stories now, "Ya Ya Sisterhood 2 LEAKED!"
Not only that but you can't watch it with Commander Taco. I know my kid would be screaming if I tried to go a Harry Potter movie without the commander. Fortunately, the folks at Warner Brothers realize this and won't be too upset over the whole affair.
Now if I can only keep him from spilling his soft drink on me when he tries to get past us, then I would be happy...
Exec 2: But sir, what can we do?
Exec 3: How about making all films in 3d? This way everyone who enters a theatre will have to wear these red/green glasses!
(silence)
Studio President: Give the man a cigar!
Mother is the best bet and don't let Satan draw you too fast.
Avast ye scurvie wenches. I've never seen such a pathetic and pasty white bunch of pirates in all my sea-going days.
Why don't ye grow up? Ain't ye got anything more intelectually stimulating to do with yer time?
This paranoid speculation with no evidence whatsoever gets a 5.
I'm speechless.
DO NOT DISTURB THE SE
It seems that all the Hollywood movies I've seen recently are going for that washed-out, slate gray look of Saving Private Ryan. I'm thinking these cinematographers are now filming these things on budget camcorders in darkened theaters just to reproduce Spielberg's look.
Some are even resorting to adding a pixelized 'NB' or scary watermarks as a cheap play on audience emotions. Heck, some of these hacks are even adding audience reaction to the soundtracks or overlaying eerie back outlines of audience members on top of the primary action. I think we can blame Woody Allen's Purple Rose of Cairo for this new trend in filmmaking.
If these Hollywood hacks can't come up with some new visual ideas, I'm staying away from news servers altogether.
I've already seen Episode IV!
I think it is most important to determine who defeated the interlock system. I'd be willing to bet that person is also the pirate, or could lead to the capture of the pirates.
--- Jason Olshefsky
Karma: Poser (mostly affected by adding this line long after everyone else did)
God hates Hairy Potter fans now? WTF? Dude this god fellow needs to lighten up and relax. What's he getting all pissy about everything for? If he's going to get all worked up about everything, maybe he ought not have made it to begin with.
Let's check the score board... So far god hates:
jews, women, homosexuals, anyone with a tan slightly darker than anglos, and now Hairy Potter Fans.
It's time we ask ourselves does god like anyone? Are you even sure he likes you?
I disagree, after watching the pirated Attack of the Clones I decided not to go to the theatres because the movie was so god-awful.
No, you're not paranoid.
I'm the guy that did the screen cap. I worked as an independ contractor hired by the MPAA.
They has a special section roped off for me at the sneak preview, and stressed that I wasn't too careful about the quality -- they just wanted enough of a teaser to get people into the theater. The bigwigs figure that for the price of a crappy download that nobody will be able to watch all the way through, they get advertising that can't be beat!
Somehow I still think that the solution to your problem is not some form of copyright protection, but new friends.
"That ends with them throwing the ring in the volcano, right?" Well, it doesn't end there. They go home and some thugs have taken over the Shire and...I mean, yeah, that's how it ends.
Actually, that's exactly how it ends. There is no retaking of the Shire in the movie. Saruman dies in The Two Towers
Uh...what about Frodo and Bilbo and Gandalf departing from the Grey Havens? And Merry and Pippen, etc., riding back to Hobbiton without them? That was one of the best parts of the book -- incredibly sad, poignant, and CUT OUT OF THE FRICKING MOVIE?!?!?!?!?!! Come on!!
You mean that Glenn Yarbrough won't sing the Road goes ever on and on? Are you telling me the animated fricking Kasey Casem version has a better ending that the Peter Jackson one?!?!??? I feel so betrayed! Galadriel had better show her f-ing tits, or I'm definitely not going to see Return of the King.
Lots of petrified grits
I'll probably be there opening night
If you're going to the snack bar, can you get me a box of Snowcaps and a Mountain Dew? Thanks. I'll pay you later.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
Siphoning gas from your neighbours tank is dead simple. But people don't do it. Why? It's stealing. But explain to me why people don't mind steal^H^Hcopying movies/music/etc when clearly there are so many other things that can be easily stolen in life?
Oooo! Ooooo! Pick me! Uhm, is it because my neighbours aren't money-grubbing thieves who charge me $13.50 for a movie admission and $10 for a cup of watered down soda and a bag of popped air?
And if you make $100,000/year then it's okay for someone to steal $100.
That would explain taxes :).
As opposed to Legal Pirates? Which would be... what? The IRS? RIAA?
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
The Jerk store just called and they're all out of you!
OddManIn: A Game of guns and game theory.
"Galadriel had better show her f-ing tits, or I'm definitely not going to see Return of the King."
LOL That was classic.