Scholastic gets subpoena to identify spoiler
The LA Times is reporting that the US Harry Potter publisher obtained a subpoena to learn the identity of a user who allegedly posted copies of Deathly Hallows on a California website.Scholastic said in a court filing Monday that "materials hosted on Photobucket.com's system" contain materials that infringe copyrights owned by Scholastic and J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books. Photobucket.com, a News Corp. unit, is a website for sharing photos and videos on social networks such as MySpace.
The subpoena was sent to Gaia Interactive Inc. in San Jose seeking the identity of a user on gaiaonline.com, a social network, according to the filing in San Francisco federal court.
Gaia complied with the subpoena, removed the material and temporarily banned the user from the site, said Gaia spokesman Bill Danon.
Posted by Ciaran on Jul 17th |
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Interesting... ONE???
wow 2
It was Gaia? Wow I hate Gaia.
horrible to spoil the book for every1! TOP 5!
Excellant!! Glad to see they're going after them.
I go on that site. Thank god I didn't see it. Top 5?
I really wish people would stop trying to spoil the book. :(
wow, that really stinks. God, I hope it wasn't the one I saw. Top 10?
Whoa crazy! They're not messing around with these potential spoilers.
good...im glad there doing something about it...im glad i didnt see it!!! top ten!! woot
Aw man, so the spoiler I accidently saw (on Youtube of all places) was true? This sucks.
Thank God he got caught adn I didnt see ti top 10???
I am going to stick to only my trusted sites until the book comes out now. I will stick with CNN, sports sites, and eBay. :-/ Sad that it has come to avoiding sites I enjoy. :-(
Since Scholastic went after them, it would therefore appear that the information that was shown on that site was legit. So I guess, for those that have read the spoilers (I'm ashamed to say I am one of them), it might be disappointing to find out that the spoilers were real.
WAIT does that mean the spoilers were true? like the one where some1 took pictures of the book? IT CANT BE REAL I HATED THE ENDING! someone tell me its not real
OMG scary.... Top 10?
Poor dude, I actually feel bad for him.
I hate it when people ruin things like this for everyone else who wants to enjoy it the right way. I think that's just the most awful thing ever. Especially when there's spoilers where you least suspect it. People are jerks.
it's SO SAD that people find it necessary to ruin the book for the masses....
no! the book has been spoiled! but luckily i didnt see it.^.^
If it's a fake, I don't see why they'd go to court over it.
dumbledork62442- WHy would you feel sorry for him???He just ruined the boook for a lot of people. thankfully I didn't see one, but I feel really bad for the rest of the people. People stop spoiling. if you read the book already, PLEASE don't post them here
I wonder if it was the pics of the chapter titles. They certainly looked real, as did the GrandPre artwork from Chapter 23 and 7. The titles did seem to be not in JKR's style, but who knows?
wow. i'm really pushing my limits going online these days with spoilers left and right, i'm glad they're trying their best to do something about it
Thats so annoying. Imagine if it was your job to look out for spoilers on the web with the millions and millions of websites there are. 3 DAYS AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! !!!!!!
@Harry_is_our_King. I'm really sorry to say this, but the scans are real. And yes, I also disliked the ending.
I am so glad that I didn't see it. last book I found out who died accidentally and it sucked (luckily though not by who, which was more of a shock). I hate spoilers.
It doesn't necessarily mean that the info was legit, just that they were infringing on copywrights. Which they were even if the story was fan fiction since there was no disclaimer like on the fan fiction part of MN.
yeah i agree with sirius_lee! IF YOU HAVE READ THE BOOK THEN PLEASE DO NOT POST ANYTHING ABOUT IT ON HERE!!!!!
It was the Gaiafags who spoiled it? I thought it was LUELinks.. Oh, wait, that's right. LUE doesn't exist.
If people are that excited about the book that they want to read spoilers... then they should read the editorials to satisfy their need for possible information without the risk of ruining the entire book
So the things in this site are true then, sigh... http://www.zen durl.com/h/hallows/ (n o spaces)
It does not mean that is was real. it contains materials that infringe copyrights owned by Scholastic and J.K. Rowling, Where the respective marks or products or services are not identical, similarity will generally be assessed by reference to whether there is a likelihood of confusion that consumers will believe the products or services originated from the trademark owner. It could be a fake but so many are taking it as real and causing an uproar that they are going to put a stop to it. Hopefully it stops others as well.
Posted by Potterite 1 minute ago "If it's a fake, I don't see why they'd go to court over it." The thing is, by taking legal actions against the website on which the spoilers were shown, Scholastic has pretty much revealed that the information is real and that it is not a fake. They would have been better off not doing anything. There are enough fake spoilers floating around on the web that it was kind of difficult distinguishing which were legit and which were not. Now, by taking legal actions, they revealed the whole thing. Kind of stupid if you ask me.
i sent in tha news article!!
moonshine - Thank you!!!!! Seriously, even if its fake, son't put them up just for a laugh because that totally sucks. People, deep your mouth shut for 3 days PLEASEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow I'm glad they caught him!
wow, so that was a real spoiler. I thought it was just a hoax or some kind of virus that people were trying to warn about. I wonder if we'll find out if it really was the real deal after the book comes out. I hope no one really did have the book spoiled for them. I would seriously cry if that happened to me. seriously.
OMG! I use Gaiaonline and I accidentally saw these spoilers just last Saturday. I thought they were fake at the time cause it didn't look like JKR's style of writing. I hope that bastard rots in Hell for this.
i hate it... persons destroying everything
It to lates for the U.S. publisher to do anything as i have already seen that you can download pictures of half of the book on a popular warez site!!!
PLEASE SOMEONE ANSWER so the spoiler that was posted on here a few days ago in comments that show'd the epilogue was real.....it couldn't have because the book ended on 759 and there are 784 pages......this was the one that the epilogue was titled nineteen years later and ended all is well...IT CANT BE TRUE NOOO please inform me...
Potterfanatic37. It is pretty much near-impossible to avoid being spoiled. I saw the list of what happens in a Youtube comment. The last place I expected to see anything in. Just because you don't see the actual scans doesn't mean that depraved fu-ckers won't find any forum they can to post spoilers.
SPEW07-i'm really not sure because I didn't see it , but I really hope it wasn't ebcasue that would be so sad for you=(
LOL if people dont want to ruin the book for themselves STOP LOOKING AT THE SPOILER SIGHTS and then come on mugglenet complaining whether what you saw was true or not. its HELLA annoying
I literally shut my eyes every time I have to comment on any website. I think it's sad that people out there find it amusing to post spoilers and trick people into reading them. I've been waiting 10 years for this book and I made a vow to myself that no matter what I WILL NOT BE SPOILED!!!!
Okay, that's cool in a weird way. They are not taking ANY chances. It's actually kind of amusing when you think about it.
asume all spoilers are fake even if you are told they are true... i think its fine to read them just to think of possible outcomes for the book but i would advise not taking any spoilers seriously because then when you read the book it will be given all the glory it deserves
SPEW07 probably not real. There is no way to know for sure. but there are so many it is hard to tell which spoiler they are talking about. I don't think it was because the news story said it was one posted on photobucket and it was the whole book. not just the end. But IDK. I have not read any of them but I did save them on my computer for after I read the book, than I will go back and see if they were real. I have heard a couple of small things by accident, ON HERE :( But all in all there is so much contradicting info that there is no way to know whats what till after I read the book. I am very careful now.
im be back later! see ya!
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