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Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets Leaked

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the gotta-hate-when-that-happens dept.

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.

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  1. Big deal by Violet+Null · · Score: 5, Funny

    You've been able to buy the script at any bookstore for years now.

    1. Re:Big deal by Nintendork · · Score: 5, Funny
      Yeah, but that would involve reading.

      As a modern man, I demand that my only sources of entertainment involve moving pictures. I also demand that the fast food industry be held accountable for my weight problem.

      -Lucas

    2. Re:Big deal by Otter · · Score: 4, Funny
      Yeah, if you saw it in Palm Springs and a woman jumped up up at the end and shouted, "What? That sucked!" -- that'd be my wife, who somehow managed to get a math degree without ever encountering Tolkien (or Star Trek, or Monty Python or...).

      I'd carefully explained to her beforehand that it's a trilogy, but apparently hadn't made it clear that there were going to be three movies. Now, I'll be seeing The Two Towers on my own, but she said she'd join me for Return of the King. ("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.")

      Incidentally, we finally got around to seeing the first Harry Potter a few months ago, and it is _terrific_! I don't understand why people were so ambivalent about it. I'd read the book but am hardly a buff, and thought it was superbly cast, written, acted, costumed staged and shot.

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    3. Re:Big deal by ciscoeng · · Score: 5, Funny

      " As a modern man, I demand that my only sources of entertainment involve moving pictures. I also demand that the fast food industry be held accountable for my weight problem."

      -Lucas

      George? Is that you?

  2. The sound you just heard... by slaker · · Score: 5, Funny

    Was a million geeks all hitting Gnutella at the same time.

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    1. Re:The sound you just heard... by n08ody · · Score: 4, Funny

      Was a million geeks all hitting Gnutella at the same time.

      I'll give you that. But, did they make a sound?

      How many geeks does it take to ...

  3. mirrors please by Pave+Low · · Score: 4, Funny
    why didn't you guys link to mirrors of like last time, with the doom 3 alpha?

    you could have saved us the trouble of looking for it on kazaa.

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  4. This is old news.... by screenbert · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  5. Illegal piraters?? by easyfrag · · Score: 5, Funny


    Illegal piraters?

    Wow, President Bush reads Slashdot!

  6. News for Pirates. Stuff to Download. by Cirrius · · Score: 4, Funny

    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)

  7. Why go to the cinema to watch the movie... by Dot.Com.CEO · · Score: 4, Funny
    when I can download a shaky, crap quality divx off the Internet?

    Also, wtf is a pirater?

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  8. This is Harry Potter. by traphicone · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's more like four geeks.

  9. Ewwww! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Harry's Chamber Pot of Secrets has leaked? Gross!

  10. OMG! by GMontag · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

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  11. Do We Really Need.. by asv108 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!"

  12. Re:Much ado about nothing by capt.Hij · · Score: 5, Funny
    I'll probably be there opening night. - Commander Taco

    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...

  13. it's the end of slashdot as we know it (AIFF) by Pfhreakaz0id · · Score: 4, Funny

    This paranoid speculation with no evidence whatsoever gets a 5.

    I'm speechless.

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  14. Movies these days by scotay · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  15. Re:Noooo.... it's all PR by pizza_milkshake · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  16. Re:Of course... by GlassHeart · · Score: 4, Funny
    I hate it when I want to go see a movie and my friends say "Oh, just saw that. It was okay." "What do you mean? It comes out tomarrow?" "I downloaded it on Kazaa."

    Somehow I still think that the solution to your problem is not some form of copyright protection, but new friends.

  17. Re:Big deal (SPOILER!) by guacamolefoo · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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.

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  18. Illegal Pirates??? by Snaller · · Score: 5, Funny

    As opposed to Legal Pirates? Which would be... what? The IRS? RIAA?

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