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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
This story isn't news, at least to me. Months beforehand, there were posters in cyberspace claiming to know what was going to happen. And yeah, I read a couple. But that's my own business. Surely, the average person is smart enough to scout around on the Net and find this info - true or not - out for himself. How do we really know this is a legit set-up? We can't for sure. Even before computers, there were people claiming to know the ending to the next Star Wars sequel. There will always be people who do these things. It's not news.
I went to the site to do a download and wound up going down the rathole downloading some other crap that was wigging out my virus detection. After all that, I still couldn't get it to work.
Can you write an article on how to use that infernal bittorrent format and how to download a safe copy of the executables that won't send my Norton antivirus into a snit?
but all of the Deathly Hallows on the P2P networks are fakes . . .
nothing to see, move along...
Kudos, Farhad...
it is tech, and it is 'Salon-worthy.' the amount of negative ninnies in this world, wow.. tho i feel for JK, there's a gajillion fans that will still purchase. all pieces of the pie and right in line w/ the flow of info in this modern world.
SPOILER! -
And the ending is:
Dark Helmet is Harry's father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate!!!
word up. ;)
My god you can tell the people complaining about this article are the same ones who think children's books are good reading. People, JK Rowling is already a millionaire, hell probably a billionaire. Her publishers too. If you were intrepid enough you could probably get her book for FREE at the library! GASP! In a socialist society they probably wouldn't even charge you for books at all! Because they're, like, cultural and stuff. So get over it. If I didn't think Harry Potter was for thumbsuckers I would download it a million times and distribute it for free.
And if you think those lines in the article are spoilers, you have regressed to the point of complete and utter infant drooling.
If it's fake, why did you post that Salon was in violation of copyright law? Or is it fake but still copyrighted? Or, perhaps, are you just a pain in everybody's tuchus?
Some posters seem to think that Scholastic et all will now be losing lots of money because photos of the books' pages are available for download. Do you think that anyone who cares enough about this book to "read" photos of it on a computer screen will not be buying a copy? Do you think that anyone who wants to read the book but for whom the purchase price is too steep has not considered a LIBRARY?
Is Farhad maybe a little overly excited about having a bitmap copy of the full final Harry Potter three days before he could buy an actual book? Well, I think so, but it's a free country. But the folks who think he's a moral degenerate really need to get out more.
I need someone to explain to me how to find the downloadable file of the new harry potter book. I want to read it before it comes out but i cant figure out how to download or even find it for that matter. I tryed to follow the instructions on the original article but i came up with nothing. I'm not technical inclined so thats why i coulndn't figure it out so somebody please help me.
I JUST FINISH READING THE LAST PAGE OF THE BOOK...
mad-eye moody dies, voldemort dies, wormtail dies, snape dies, fred dies, dobby dies, even the fuking owl dies (hedwig), and ron marries hermione and harry marries ginny and has 3 kids...
I expect that anyone who doesn't want to know the ending will avoid this letters page anyway ... but do you have to put spoilers in the subject line?
What are you, twelve?
To me its fairly obvious. To prevent the real book from leaking the publisher has spread several false copies containing bogus storylines.
The copy shown here is just a deliberate way of giving pirates no chance.
The publisher themselves acknowledged they spent over 20 million to prevent leaking, and spreading false copies (even going through the trouble of writing and printing those) would be an awesome way to surprise everyone.
In the chaos of the multitude of versions, the really leaked copies (if there even are ones) will be hardly recognizable and therefore are safe from publicity.
It looks as though someone may have faked this. Amazon lists the page number as 784, and this pirated version advertises a 795 page book. fingers crossed?
Let's see:
1. People are anxiously awaiting the final Harry Potter book? Not news.
2. People like to post fakes of things like this online? Not news.
3. People like to leak the real thing online ahead of the release dates? Not news.
4. Deathly Hallows now exists as a physical book? Not news, at least not to anyone who has ever worked in the book industry.
5. Digital cameras exist? Not news.
So whether this is real or fake, it's not news simply because every aspect of it is perfectly ordinary. Dog bites man. We know this. All that writing it up does is give the perpetrator emotional wank material.
In any case, I see no point in this whole thing. It's two days. I have better things to do with two days than spend them pouring over somebody's crappy digital photos. So somebody found a way to leak the book? So what else is new? This kind of thing is expected, and the best thing to do is draw attention elsewhere.
I can imagine no bigger letdown for the poor moron who did it. Imagine if you leaked Harry Potter and nobody downloaded it!
OMG! This article has spoiled the final HP book for me in exactly the same way that gay marriage has completely befouled the Institution of Christian Marriage. I'm totally canceling my three pre-ordered copies in protest, and I call upon all Salon readers to do the same. That'll show 'em!
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