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.
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EVERYONE WHO IS ANYONE THAT KNOWS EVERYONE THAT'S NOT A NO ONE KNOWS THAT R.A.B. stands for Radcliffe Actually Barfs or Rusty Axes (hurt like a) B***h or Rubeus Acutally (has) ****
STRIPE HOW DO I FIND THE BOOK
If you look at the text in the scanned pages, they are grammatically a mess as well as written in a completely different style than what Jo uses. The references aren't there, nor is the depth of her writing. I'm telling you-it's a photoshopped copy-(It isn't hard to do if you know what you're doing on photoshop.) People are getting anxious and Scholastic is getting involved as an example to what will happen if there is a huge leak or if the book is transcribed online without consent-(especially before the release date.) It's all common procedure. They are fake. {I read some of the scans.}
Yeah. no one has mentioned the guys at borders who filmed the book and told of major spoilers. A lot of what they are claiming is different from spoilers i've seen over the past week. The copy they have looks legit, and the guys are sitting in front of a palate of boxes containing the books.
These are NOT geniue spoilers, I must admit mugglenet does run a bit slow on news... They're fake, MTV has an article, Arthur Levine through his comments imply these are total fake. And the spoilers are just plain bad fan-fiction.
The video Norainen linked to demonstrates how easy it is to get a copy of the book. Basically some guys working in a bookstore say they are quiting so might as well go out with a bang, then they go out back where there are a load of Deathly Hallows boxes and pick up a copy of the book. They show all the stuff in the front and it is definately real. Then they wave the book around and start to give a summery, so i stopped there. But that was definately the real book so loads of people could get their hands on it and scan it in quite easily. Anyhoo bring on Saturday!!!
or R.A.B> could be Radcliffe Actually (likes it from) Behind or Raping A (hermione is not considered) Burglary
THEY. ARE. REAL. None of you have even read the leaked book. LJ - spoil_me_dh. Read it, and then tell me it's fake. No one could come up with 700+ pages of high-quality writing WITH UNIQUE CHAPTER ART and then photoshop hundreds of images to make it look like the real book or actually get the fake story bound and then photographed. Are you actually insane!?
good thing they caught them!!!!!!!!!
G-O-O-G-L-E
If Scholastic petitioned for a subpoena knowing that the images were in fact not infringing, then there likely would be an abuse of process action against the company by the website (and any other named parties in the subpoena) Now, this does not prove that the alleged infringement is the text itself and not the artwork, as was discussed earlier, but the successful application for a subpoena does mean that Scholastic was able to convince a Federal Judge to issue that subpoena, which means they had to show by the preponderance of the evidence that an infringement was likely. I will look for the text of the subpoena.
rob15, wow, you've turned off the caps lock - but sadly you're still writing nonsense!
What I find so incredibley hilarious (and sort of ignorant) about this whole situation is those of you who are saying THIS IS NOT JKR'S STYLE!! Okay people what are you going to do when we get the book in our hands and it's all the same as the spoilers you've seen. Bet you'll feel like a fool. You've just insulted JK Rowling, and you call yourself a fan. hahaha just messing, but these comments are becoming more and more entertaing. The nerve of some people. No one knows except for the publishers, Jo, and those who have posted them, whether these spoilers are true. So stop insisting you know they're real, fake, chessecake, whatever.
Stripe, u r freakin' funny...i mean, that epilogue u think is real doesn't go with the other cheesecake turds spoilers.........i mean, the lines u r feeding us are pretty cool, but hilarious at the same time....and i love how u keep thinking it's all true.....CHEESECAKE IS TRUE and so r a box of chocolates, u never know what ur gonna get( thought i'd bring in some needed Forest Gump quotes......they are almost like cheesecake to me....) sorry if i SPOILED THE FUN!!!
or it could be Radcliffe (rapes) Argus (in the) Butt, Riding Argus' Butt, Rob15 (doesn't) Allow (Dirt)Burglars, Rupert Allows Buns
Has anyone ever uploaded the whole HP Book before the release before?
"They moved Voldemort's body and laid it in a chamber off the Hall, away from the bodies of Fred, Tonks, Lupin, Colin Creevey, and fifty others who had died fighting him."
It IS the real book, I'm reading the second chapter and that's something Jo has written yes or yes. She brilliantly satirizes nowadays press and media. It's hilarious. Rita Skeeter does with Dumbledore what nowadays press do with all those famous people who die and they invent all these things about their past trying to make everyone belive they were not so clear and perfect. LOL it's SO brilliant, only Jo could write that. Anyways, that's all I've read, because I want to read the book, I will wait to buy it this Friday night. I don't want to read it on my computer, it's too odd.
Bloody hell, for those of you that have read the spoilers....mistakedly or not ...DONT, give your opinion on what the spoilers contained ...for example..saying that you thought the ending was good/bad. Saying that in its self is giving the spoiler a voice on mugglenet and its not appreciated.
W.T.F. seriously this is getting so crazy...reading these comments its like a warzone battlefield where you dont know with ur next step something is going to blowup and you'll read something that'll ruin it all. IF YOU'VE READ SPOILERS, DONT SAY "IVE JUST READ A SPOILER AND OMG ITS.....THIS PERSON DIES" holy crap people have some decency. DONT RUIN IT FOR THE REST OF US. even though we know that some things are true or some things are totally false and no matter how hard we can try and be all "yeah i just wont let it bother me i'll still be surprised" its still not the same as having a completely clear mind and expecting something that we've all been waiting for since we read the first page of the first book. THIS IS THE LAST TIME WE'LL EVER EXPERIENCE SOMETHING LIKE THIS, LETS KEEP IT SACRED.
i saw this headline on comcast.net and i of course had to click on it and i saw the spoiler page. and unfortunatly some of the deaths. hopefully its not true. *keeps fingers crossed*
oh, and on a serious note, i hate people who think we are thinking all of the info is false, and that we will be 'FOOLS" for thinking it's false, some might be true, but then there are people contradicting the supposed true leaks.....it INFURIATES me that u think that we'll hate the books if some are true....it just makes me laugh at some of the stuff that u guyz come out with......i am just trying to make this situation more crazy b/c u guyz are being too serious, like i was until i realized that either way, u can't stop ignorant people from coming out with spoilers....... anyway , CHEESECAKE :D
I believe stripe is channeling jerkyhole... oh well I guess I'll just have to stay away from my computer until Friday... I have to pack anyway. See you guys in IL!
Firstly, I'd like to say that I find spoilers repulsive. It takes away from the fun of the midnight release. But my real reason fro commenting is that this thread: http://forum.ebaumsworld. com/showthread.php?t=2124 06 on Ebaum's World appears to have a copy of DH scanned online. Whether or not it is real is not certain, but it appears to be. I don't know who this should be reported to, but there it is, anyway.
HPGIRL21053: yes my felow cheesecakeian, we have found the mighty Housifa Dirtburglar, he is actually either Stripe or Jerkyhole....and R.A.B stands for Rusty Axes Burn, or Riding A Blonde (is like riding mmosquitos)
wow there are still cheesecakeians on? its been a long time
Anything that contradicts the leaked 700+ page book is false. Ron does not die. Hermione does not die. Neville does not kill Bellatrix (Molly does - this part is awesome). Snape is not evil. Harry marries Ginny and Hermione marries Ron. On Saturday, you will open the book and the opening will be the same as the one in the Guardian article. When you get to the end, the epilogue will be called 'Nineteen Years Later', in which Harry names his son Albus Severus. I know, it sucks, but it's true. These photographs cannot have been faked - take a look at them. Serious legal action is being taken against the person who uploaded these photographs - this *would not happen* if they were fake. It is NOT a crime to upload photos of a FAKE BOOK. :)
oh, and yahoo.com has an article...don't click on the sites. but it does say some stuff that'll make us happy, like how stuff is contradicting other stuff about a main character...so obviously no one really knows what happens to the CHEESECAKE!!!
cbloodworth, someone took pics of the entire book and uploaded them. The publishers already know it, that's what all this newsupdate is about.
FROM mtv.com: Still, while not saying whether the leaks are indeed fakes, "Potter" publisher Scholastic obtained a subpoena on Monday to learn the identity of a user who posted copies on a social-networking site in California. Some fans looked at this as proof that the leaks were real, but a spokesman from Scholastic explained to MTV News that the subpoena was sought because "any material from or derived from the books is a copyright infringement." "There is a lot of material on the Internet that claims to come from 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,' " Scholastic Vice President of Corporate Communications and Media Relations Kyle Good said, "but anyone can post anything on the Internet, and you can't believe everything you see online. We all have our theories on how the series will end, but the only way we'll know for sure is to read the book ourselves at 12:01 a.m. on July 21. No matter what anyone claims before that time, we know that parents, booksellers, librarians and especially fans do not want spoilers but rather want to keep the magic alive for that midnight moment when everyone can read the book together."
If anyone wants me to answer ANY question about Deathly Hallows for you, go here to this chatroom: http://chat.parachat.com/ chat/login.html?room=NES_ Online&width=1258&height= 570&bg=0000FF&lang=en I will answer anything about the book and only what you want to know, nothing more. Deathly Hallows was awesome!
hpgirl21053: yes its true that some people are taking it way too seriously..but dont you think we have the right to be taking it seriously? i mean..im not neccessarily speaking about myself here, but for some people harry potter means the world to them and the last book is what it is..the LAST BOOK. why would we want to be spoiled? if its true or not true. spoilers SUCK. you cant stop people from putting them up but YOU CAN stop people from thinking that if they've read them they can tell everyone...cuz ur just as bad as the spoilers if you start spreading them around even more.
Not a good sign that the guy is actually getting in trouble for this, that means it could be, somewhat true. My dad read it and said it's pretty bad, and doesn't seem like J.K. Rowling's style of writing. Could it be, perhaps that he might of altered the ending? Like, some parts of it were legit but he changed some parts to make it more shocking? My dad also said that when he read it many more people died that J.K. said. She said two characters would die, and apparently a lot more did. Even more than two MAJOR characters died.
If anyone wants me to answer ANY question about Deathly Hallows for you, IM me on AIM under my screenname HAVortexDude. I will answer anything about the book and only what you want to know, nothing more. Deathly Hallows was awesome!
rob15: :D and hppandme: oh, i wasn't saying that this shouldn't be taken seriously, as of the leak, but i am saying u shouldn't take the other spoilers on here serious, because if u do, u r just going to make them more excited and think they are cool.......i take this serious, but not the other CRAP....CHEESECAKES ARE YUMMY AND THEY RULE!!!
STRIPE UR AN ASS GO TO HELL. WHAT THE HELL DUDE WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!
i should not have read that one website that someone posted, its my own fault if it is definitely a true spoiler! from now on, till i finish the book i am not going to read anything thing else that remotely will tell a spoiler!!!!!!
I'm leaving the internet. I'll be back Sun. Ther're too many spoilers and they are saying different things. One says this person will die then another says this person who supposidly died is going to later marry this other person. I'm just avoiding the net all together until Sun. Hopefully I will get to purchase the real thing come Friday night. I was going to put a copy on hold at my Library, though I would be on a waiting list of 77 people LOL. So I'll return on Sun and then watch the comments fly. Can't wait to see what everyone thinks of it.
anyone who is a DEATH AGGIE OR IN LEAGUE WITH HOUSIFA DIRTBURGLAR, know that we will hunt you down (like desperate housewifes) and we will kick you off the topmost towers and laugh like drunken hyienas as you squeal like mouses while we eat holy sweet cheesecake and watch you uncheesecakey faggots splat like fly swatters into a place with 4 letters that has lots of fire...
Is this the same spoiler from the guy who supposedly hacked into the publisher's computer and read it and then posted on his website? This was last week or the week before. Is it the same one or something entirely different? I looked at that one, but it didn't seem likely. If these are different, I'm SO glad I missed it.
um...hi im back! are any cheesecakeians here?
oh okay gotcha hpgirl21053! LOL I LIKE CHEESECAKE.
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