Harry Potter Leaked Via Handheld Camera 427
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."
heh (Score:5, Funny)
Crappy cam quality. Can't they telesync a book nowadays?
Oh wait...
And who saw that ending coming? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The info you are looking for: (Score:5, Funny)
How do we know? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sigh... (Score:5, Funny)
You mean one of your neighbors isn't running a open WAP, er, I mean 'torrent anonymizer'?
The hands. (Score:5, Funny)
I have slept with J.K. Rowling, and I can state, with absolute certainty, that those are her hands. They are absolutely unmistakable, so the woman has leaked her own book. Way to drum up interest!
Re:I'll wait until the 21st (Score:5, Funny)
ok, you are the biggest dork, you win.
HERE IT IS, OCD'D (Score:4, Funny)
"I would have if I could," Harry said, "but I didn't have the O.W.L.s to manage it. Remember, her last letter said she was going to go on to post-graduate work." They waved to familiar friends and began introducing themselves to the new students. Quite a lot of the younger students kept passing them and then looking back at Harry and stopping dead in surprise.
After eight years, Harry was used to being stared at. The dark Lord Voldemort's attack on him as a baby left him a distinctive lightning bolt-shaped scar on his forehead, and the reputation of being the only person Voldemort couldn't kill outright did the rest, with some help from the reputation Harry had built for himself since. After discovering he was a wizard and could attend Hogwart's School of Wizardry, Harry had gotten wind of several of Voldemort's evil schemes and had thwarted them all. He had faced death, humiliation, basilisks, dragons, evil wizards, malicious spells, foul odors, the undead, and even the Inland Revenue and remained unscathed. Oddly enough, Voldemort's schemes seemed to be losing oomph, as if he could no longer pull together enough power to get a really good evil plan together. The last attempt had been to place Harry on a chain letter mailing list.
As more and more students kept staring at him, Harry began to realize that there was a different class of attention. He recognized the star-gazers, the well-wishers, the groupies, the jealous, and the envious, but he kept noticing female students looking at him in a funny way, almost as if they were hungry. One pretty blonde student even went so far as to lick her lips and use her hand to smooth out the front of her robe, although Harry hadn't noticed any wrinkles..
Ron noticed it as well. "Cor, Harry! You outta be able to get some serious schtank this year! And we're finally of legal age to learn Sex Magic, so you'll have an excuse and everything."
"But why are they staring at me? Why not both of us?" Harry asked, blushing furiously.
"Well, look at you. You've been playing tournament-class Quidditch for eight years, you're in fantastic shape, you've got the scar (chicks love scars, Harry), and Daniel Radcliffe turned out to be a hunk."
"What?"
"Look, there's Hermione!"
Hermione Granger was standing at the bottom of the steps to the girls' dormitories. Harry and Ron dashed towards her and then stopped dead. Hermione had changed over the summer. The difference was so great that Harry was forced to realize that he hadn't really been paying attention the last few years. The mass of curly brown hair was still there, but it was arranged in an artful way to frame her face and curl over her shoulders. Her face was more angular, with high cheekbones and clear milky skin. The prominent front teeth were still there, but they only served to push her lips forward in a very interesting manner, making her look as if she was always just about to eat a strawberry. Her robes had changed as well; they fit quite a bit better, for one, and the neckline seemed much more fascinating than before. She had a thin leather belt around her waist, from which hung several small silk pouches and which incidentally accentuated her lush curves. Heavily orchestrated music began playing. "Hi Harry, hi Ron!" she called, and went to hug them both.
"Um, cough, wow, Hermione, you're looking really, um, good," Ron blurted out. Harry just nodded and concentrated on trying to breathe normally.
She preened. "Th
Efficiency is a bitch (Score:1, Funny)
Re:The spoilers (Score:0, Funny)
Re:and it won't cost them (Score:5, Funny)
the publisher and author are claiming losses of 68 trillion US Dollars in US sales alone because of the leak.
They figured the number based on the claims made by software and Music publishers over the past few years.
Unfortunately now, every man woman and child in the UK will now have no electricity, heat, water or spicy food for 15 years because of this. The economic destruction that it will cause will probably bring the roman empire back to london, Make all beer taste sour, and disrupt peace in the middle east.
See how damaging Piracy is!! SEE!
Re:And who saw that ending coming? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:HERE IT IS, OCD'D (Score:3, Funny)
** SPOILER ALERT ** (Score:5, Funny)
Re:And who saw that ending coming? (Score:4, Funny)
Possible EIGHTH book spoilers (Score:2, Funny)
Re:** SPOILER ALERT ** (Score:5, Funny)
Re:and it won't cost them (Score:2, Funny)
How is that different from British beer now? *duck*
Someone shot John Lennon? Gee, thanks... (Score:5, Funny)
I was just starting to enjoy this Beatles biography but you've ruined it for me now...
If you RTFA (read the ficticious alternative)... (Score:5, Funny)
Harry Potter survived an electric shock to his wand recently after an unfortunate accident which occurred during an argument between himself and Hermione at the girl's toilets. Rumors are abounding as to the exact details of the incident, but it has been corroborated by the Ministry of Madness that a handheld PC running on high voltage cells was in the possession of Hermione at the time of the incident. Alternative accounts of the incident state that in fact Harry Potter was having a leak at the boys' toilets whilst holding hands with Hermione (hence 'hand held leak'), whereas others refer to Harry Potter misinterpreting Hermione's comment about his personal computer being rather small. "I am not pea sized!" he was quoted as saying, shortly before his wand exploded.
Harry is currently recovering in bed and is due to have laser removal of a jagged tattoo that has developed on his lower body.
(source: AFP/Routers)
Re:Sigh... (Score:3, Funny)
It'd be hard to prove the serial number if you put the camera through a blender
Accio charm (Score:2, Funny)
Re:and it won't cost them (Score:5, Funny)
Re:and it won't cost them (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Are you a complete cheapskate? (Score:5, Funny)
The buying.
> Or, waiting a few days longer and borrowing a used copy from a friend?
The waiting.
> Or, waiting a few days longer and buying a used copy via eBay?
The buying.
> Or, borrowing a copy from your local library when they have it?
The waiting.
Re:Someone shot John Lennon? Gee, thanks... (Score:3, Funny)
Table (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Don't be a pretentious ass (Score:5, Funny)
Boy, was that a mistake...
Re:HERE IT IS, OCD'D (Score:1, Funny)
"...suddenly Harry woke up.
'My goodness!' he exclaimed, 'It was all a dream! Mere fantasy parading around as insightful artwork.'
He sat up in bed and flicked on the TV.
'Oooh, the Hollyoaks omnibus!' he chuckled. 'I wonder what that blonde student bird is wearing today?' Finally, he thrust a groping hand under the duvet...
THE END"
Ob. Monty Python quote (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Great marketing (Score:4, Funny)
just being a pretentious ass (Score:4, Funny)
And The Last Line Is.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:HERE IT IS, OCD'D (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Reading = good? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Don't be a pretentious ass (Score:3, Funny)
You are not enlightening us that trolling is bad. No you're just being a pretentious ass. It's not enough for you to enjoy the posts you enjoy, you need to reach out and actively piss on the posts other people enjoy. You're not changing anyone's mind. You're just enjoying being superior by your own tortured definition of superior. That makes you an ass.
Re:and it won't cost them (Score:3, Funny)
Make several of them, with incompatible spoilers, and switch back and forth every few minutes.