Harry Potter Leaked Via Handheld Camera

owlgorithm writes "Salon reports that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has been leaked four days before it hits bookstores. It turns out that someone with access to the American edition of the book has taken a photograph of every one of the pages and made them available via bittorrent. Publishers may well be quaking in their boots, but in some places the quality is barely legible. On many pages the pirateer's hands are in the pictures with other pages needing a bit of Photoshopping just to make out the words. It appears many of the sites have been removing the content, naturally enough."

Comments

Are you a complete cheapskate?

[WIAKywbfatw]

Are you a complete cheapskate?

What's wrong with waiting a whole four days and then buying the book yourself?

Or, waiting a few days longer and borrowing a used copy from a friend?

Or, waiting a few days longer and buying a used copy via eBay?

Or, borrowing a copy from your local library when they have it?

If you're that desperate to read the book that you'd go through the hassle of downloading a torrent and then running all the pages through an OCR package, and then putting all that together, and then having to wonder what happened in the parts that weren't clear enough to OCR as well as deal with the hassle of incorrectly recognised characters then you should be a man and just buy for the damn book.

I'd really love to know your justification for doing anything but that.

Re:Anyone who is a fan enough to.....

[Peter La Casse]

But then again, a genuine fan would want something that fits collector status in at least a minimal way.

Why ?

Because genuine fans are dumb.