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Tuesday, July 17, 2007 12:00 AM

The full, final "Harry Potter" -- leaked online!

Photographs of each page of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" make it to file-sharing sites on the Web.
By Farhad Manjoo

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  • Tuesday, July 17, 2007 12:50 PM

    Illegal, yes

    I think it could be argued that he did something illegal. Had he downloaded the leak through a conventional method (ie one way) there probably wouldn't be a problem. But as I said earlier, when you download through bittorrent you are at the same time also distributing the file to others.

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