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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."
Crappy cam quality. Can't they telesync a book nowadays?
Oh wait...
Trolling is a art,
I mean... Harry Potter is Luke Skywalker's father?!
How do we know it was done with a handheld camera? Looks like magic to me.
but bit torrent downloads can be tracked
You mean one of your neighbors isn't running a open WAP, er, I mean 'torrent anonymizer'?
I have slept with J.K. Rowling, and I can state, with absolute certainty, that those are her hands. They are absolutely unmistakable, so the woman has leaked her own book. Way to drum up interest!
"I've waited this long, have the day off work and the fridge stocked with spcied wine."
ok, you are the biggest dork, you win.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
On the contrary,
the publisher and author are claiming losses of 68 trillion US Dollars in US sales alone because of the leak.
They figured the number based on the claims made by software and Music publishers over the past few years.
Unfortunately now, every man woman and child in the UK will now have no electricity, heat, water or spicy food for 15 years because of this. The economic destruction that it will cause will probably bring the roman empire back to london, Make all beer taste sour, and disrupt peace in the middle east.
See how damaging Piracy is!! SEE!
Harry is gay.... ... and proud.
> What's wrong with waiting a whole four days and then buying the book yourself?
The buying.
> Or, waiting a few days longer and borrowing a used copy from a friend?
The waiting.
> Or, waiting a few days longer and buying a used copy via eBay?
The buying.
> Or, borrowing a copy from your local library when they have it?
The waiting.
"Harry Potter, do you want your possessions identified? (y/n/q)"