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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."
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.