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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."

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  1. The main problem... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    On several sites that allow commenting, people are posting the spoilers. I've already had the book ruined for me unexpectedly :P (since it was a week before release)...

  2. Uberspoiler at bayimg.com by viking80 · · Score: 5, Informative
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  3. Re:heh by un1xl0ser · · Score: 3, Informative

    A telesync is normally an improvement of sound quality by syncing either the FM broadcast for the hearing impaired (or at a drive-in), or directly into the soundboard. Sometimes the reason that they got a soundboard feed is because they are a projectionist, which is why the video quality may be improved, but this isn't always the case. I think that you mean a dvdscr or dvdrip. :-)

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  4. Re:So? by Fred+Ferrigno · · Score: 4, Informative
  5. Re:I'll wait until the 21st by ozbird · · Score: 4, Informative

    "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.


    Remember kids, gazpacho soup is served cold; spiced wine is served hot.

  6. Pirateer by Le+Marteau · · Score: 5, Informative

    On many pages the pirateer's hands are in the pictures

    Perhaps you mean 'pirate'? 'Pirateer' is not a word ('privateer' is, of course, a word, but clearly not meant here).

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