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Harry Potter Leaked Via Handheld Camera

Posted by kdawson on from the too-big-a-perimeter-to-patrol dept.

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. Re:Unexpectedly ruined? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So, somebody MADE you read the spoilers?

    When trolls post it in the middle of a batch of comments with a deceptive title? I didn't exactly seek out spoilers. It wasn't a Harry Potter related post even.

  2. Serial numbers intact! by jdberry · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I hear the perp left his Canon's serial number in the Exif data for each picture. I wonder if he registered the camera? Will Canon protect his privacy? ;)