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Wednesday, July 18, 2007 12:00 AM

The Potter leak: Winners and losers (no spoilers)

What the pre-released version of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" tells us about controlling art in the digital age.

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  • Wednesday, July 18, 2007 12:41 PM

    good article

    and solid reasoning. I've never read any of the potter books and was amazed and saddened by people's (adults!) hysterical reaction yesterday. google is scanning millions of books, and I'm willing to bet that you haven't read most of them. are you indignant that the images of those books now exist somewhere?

    Farhad made a good point to those worried about having the book spoiled: all you have to do is nothing. it's not like the book's publication will be now cancelled. Is your weekend reading group going to be dismantled becasue somebody somewhere knows the ending?

    hmmmmm...if someone was more devious and motivated than I, they could download the book, read only the ending and print up a t-shirt with the idenity of the slain on it: "_______ Dies" and then take to the subway.

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