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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."
Its a freaking KIDS BOOK!
I think you have a misconstrued view of people who spoil plots, deface art, etc. Most the time the people have little emotional investment in what they are defacing, and do it primarily for entertainment value rather than any deep reasons. Think about drunk frat boys. The guy who shot Lennon was a friggin sociopath.
Sure, defacers are douchebags, and vandals need a good punch to the back of the head, but the people with the real problem are those who get overly worked up about art in the first place.
Really? Come on...Who gives a shit about this? It's not like it's actually literature. hats off to JKR for all the money she's made and for getting little kids into reading again but it's Famous Five Go Casting a Spell without the lashings of ginger beer. I can't believe anyone over the age of 12 gives a damn.
Yeah, and since when -- in the whole of history -- would taking out the British from the equation have had a negative effect on the Middle East. Practically the whole Muslim world owes Britain a black eye for the effects the British empire has had on history there.
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").