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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but...BUT! I've been sitting on Gaia's HP subforum every day, seen a few spoilers, but what was the real one? D: No idea. ;_;
Hey dobbyrox, stop being a dipsh-it and read my comment 2 above yours. The spoilers aren't contained in ONLY spoiler sites. Jackass
*gasp* who would do something like that?! no offence, but i think they can go to jail for that cant they. im not against them or anything, just asking.
Heheh, my quest for truth ends today. "Copyright Infringement" is a fancy Big Wig phrase, which means: "THE EPILOGUE IS REAL. THE PICS ARE REAL. IT'S ALL REAL. TAKE COVER NOW." There would be no 'copyright infringement,' if this were some fanfic. It's true. It's all true.
Isnt it so much more fun to wait for the book the come out and not know what to expect? I mean, wheres the fun in reading the ending before the rest of the book? My friends mom didnt want her to go to those midnight release things because she thought the ending would be shouted out by someone, but I doubt it...
Because I haven't run into a single "picture" of the book yet because most boards like MN don't allow you to just post a picture, just links, which means the overwhelmingly majority of people have seen the pictures were looking for them to begin with, so the guy really didn't hurt anyone.
Just because legal action has been taken, it doesn't mean that the spoilers are REAL. it just means that the person who posted it has comitted FRAUD, just by using the copyright of Harry Potter in the first place. :)
@SPEW07. Unfortunately, that terrible (in my opinion) epilogue is true. But hey, maybe some people will like it.
It's a shame that people want to try to spoil this for us. I have this fear that I'm gonna run into this at the release party I'm going to. I swear if anybody spoils anything there I might just kill them. Ok maybe i won't kill them but I will hurt them really bad.
Omg.... my friend saw one of those images. She posted it in her livejournal (link to photo on flickr) and THANK GOODNESS I didn't click it. It was real? I HATE spoilers. I usually never bothers me because I finish the new books in under 15 hours and that time is devoted to the book, but for me to be spoiled beforehand is.... GRRR! Peeps who spoil = losers!
To those complaining that the story was spoiled for them: Last I checked, 'you' had control over your pc and your mouse. If you clicked on the spoilers, you were in full control of your actions and knew what you were getting yourself into. Don't be angry that the story was then spoiled. You knew better and made your choice. For those that haven't. Don't want to read it, don't click on it. Even this message page warns that spoilers might happen. Lets all be big boys and girls and take responsiblity for ourselves. That person was wrong for posting it, but we have the power to control ourselves.
I think Tonks1975 is right. The spoiler does not have to be true for them to go after the user.
Actually i posted this yesterday, THERE ARE DIGITAL PHOTOS OF EACH PAGE OF THE BOOK....COVER TO COVER, TABLE OF CONTENTS TO EPILOGUE....that epilogue is the real deal, but it contradicts some of the stuff in previous "scans" for example ***POSSIBLE SPOILER WARNING****** ***POSSIBLE SPOILER WARNING****** ***POSSIBLE SPOILER WARNING****** ***POSSIBLE SPOILER WARNING****** ***POSSIBLE SPOILER WARNING****** ***POSSIBLE SPOILER WARNING****** ***POSSIBLE SPOILER WARNING****** ***POSSIBLE SPOILER WARNING****** ***POSSIBLE SPOILER WARNING******DONT SAY I DIDNT WARN YOU ***POSSIBLE SPOILER WARNING****** ***POSSIBLE SPOILER WARNING******...in the scans it says that ron is killed by bellatrix, however in the epilogue we see that ron marries hermione and has children, samething wtih Harry and Ginny, epilogue is titles 19 Years Later**********SPOILERS END********************** SPOILERS END********************** SPOILERS END********************** SPOILERS END********************** SPOILERS END********************** SPOILERS END********************** SPOILERS END********************** SPOILERS END********************** SPOILERS END********************** SPOILERS END********************** SPOILERS END********************** SPOILERS END********************** SPOILERS END********************** SPOILERS END********************** SPOILERS END********************** SPOILERS END********************** SPOILERS END********************** SPOILERS END********************** SPOILERS END********************** SPOILERS END********************** SPOILERS END********************** SPOILERS END********************** SPOILERS END********************** SPOILERS END********************** SPOILERS END********************** SPOILERS END********************** SPOILERS END********************** SPOILERS END********************** SPOILERS END********************** SPOILERS END********************** SPOILERS END********************** SPOILERS END********************** SPOILERS END********************** SPOILERS END********************** SP...
yeah it was the whole book my dad is part of the legal team. He has already given me a copy
EEDOE and everyone else being a dumb fu-ck. It isn't necessary to click on some "OMGZ SPOILERZ" link to find out what happens! I saw a list of deaths in a Youtube comment on a random ass viral. The people that complain Are usually the ones who didn't want to be spoiled and DIDN'T click on some dumbass link.
eedoe less: I agree with you, the person on the computer does have control, but i still would like to give them the benefit of the doubt... Does Mugglenet like disable the comments or anything like that after the book comes out? Just wondering....
Very sorry to inform u that harry potter and the deathly hallows is now easily available on the internet. I hvnt read (neither will I!!!) it but I hv seen it, n yes there is little doubt its the real thing. so beware of the spoilers, they r likely to be true now.
I've seen the video. Honestly, what a DORK, did he think he wouldn't get caught? Warping your voice and blurring your face doesn't achieve anything when posts are trackable in so many ways! In any case, spoilers don't bother me a bit. The book itself will be enthralling enough, no matter how many details might be divulged in the next few days.
I do not think that the supposed scans of the final chapter are real because they say 553 or so as the last page....but Scholastic's page count was 784 I'm not sure which scans are real though...I only saw the one of the last chapter and one other that I was tricked into seeing
its funny though, I did read it, and they are quite inconsistent, the spoilers do not match the pictures of the book so they lied about at least 1 thing :D
yeah BenQ for sure... hope this leak isnt real, read 2-3 pages of it and i didnt like the style at all. Didnt sound like JKR if you ask me. But who knows... nearly everything points to the fact that it is no fake ;/
eedoe-shut the f*** up. You can get spiled by going on any website. You don't know anything about it so shut up before I force you to people like you really psst me off
I beleive that they are real and have just read that there also on bittorrent sites so they never get all the files off them!!!!!!!!!
What about the bittorrents?? Did they get those? Surely you've hear about the maniacs who got photos and spread them through bittorrent. For the uninformed: http://www.s iteofrequirement.com/inde x.php?subaction=showcomme nts&id=1184689109&archive =&start_from=&ucat=2&
Just look it this way guys. I have read a lot of theory's and heard a few "spoilers". Out of all the theory's I have heard someone is bound to be right. But that does not mean it is a spoiler. All of a sudden someone CLAIMS they have read the book and says something everybody freaks out. It could all be a lie and that is just there theory they are trying to pass off as fact. If you are one of the unfortunate ones who saw the scans than you were probably looking for them. and even if they were just sprung on you, you didn't have to read them. And even than they may not be real. People can use photo shop real well..................... .............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........... So just because they are pressing charges or whatever does not make it true!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Just because legal action has been taken, it doesn't mean that the spoilers are REAL. it just means that the person who posted it has comitted FRAUD, just by using the copyright of Harry Potter in the first place. :)" Man...you're right. But MissMalfoy...What kind of idiot would risk prison for a fanfiction. No gaiafag or 4chaner or LUEtard would do it. I just can't grasp a human being doing something so stupid....The last time someone was an idiot of such magnitude was when a kid named Neville Longbottom dropped a list of passwords to enter the dormitory area of his school, and the mass murderer Sirius Black found them and used it to attempt to take Ronald Weasley's life...Would I risk it for the real book? Yeah. For a fanfic? WHY?!
The point is that, how much we try to curse the spoilermakers on here, they are working for the PUBLIC, so who wants to read the spoilers just reads it, and the others will wait till the book is out. Remember two years ago, and two years ago of that too; the same situation, and we were still howling and moaning. It's just - it's not even MuggleNet's problem: when you open a newspaper website, you may see an advertorial page showing all the spoilers about the book. How much you're on the net, that much it is possible to be spoiled about the book. Only 3 days left, so what you can do is to enter MuggleNet everyday but ONLY for the news, don't read the comments, as the stuff of MuggleNet says "Beware of spoilers!", or open the comments section, directly go down to the page, write your opinion, send and directly return to the homepage. Somebody says "Please tell me the spoilers that I have read are not true!"; I understand those people because I mistakenly found some spoilers in the comments too, but spoiler means that it can be "50%" true, unless the publisher comes and says "all the material that is spreaded on the net as spoiler are fake/true!", and they won't say that, believe me. :)
amputechture - abusive slurs and cursing will get you no where. And I'm not being stupid. Those that don't want to be spoiled are intelligent enough to know that there is a risk on looking at anything that even has the word Harry Potter wrote on it. Common sense tells you that you run a risk if you go anywhere near anything related to Harry Potter right now. I am specifically talking to those who fell to temptation and are now upset that what they viewed was real.
to eedoe 4 : not to be mean or anything but i was looking at a message board i go to often and the thread title was "One of the funniest things ever" I clicked on it and boom! there was a giant image of the book. I saw a few things but nothing that really ruined the book for me. So for some of us it's not really our fault. People just need to learn to be jerks and title their threads properly :-)
whats a subpoena? so are these spoilers true or not? and how in the world would this person have been able to get a copy of this book???
@toRf. Nope, it's not a fake. But don't worry, there are some really good parts in the book.
Eedoe, did you read ANYTHING I said? I saw a list of deaths on a Youtube comment. It wasn't related to Harry Potter at all. It was a random viral. Get off your high-horse and realize that not everyone that saw spoilers WANTED to see them.
hpfreak07 needs to shut up. The details of the spoiler should not be discussed on this website.
eedoe- seriously, you need to shut up about stuff you son't get. spoilers are also on totally HP free websites to adn they look like normal comments and posts
So they actually got it?? Well I shouldn't even ask because I am NOT looking at ANY comments for the answer. Haha..
lilpotterfan, a subpoena is a court order. It means they have the rights (given by the justice system) to order that the spoiler be taken down. You can read more about all the maniacal spoiling going on at http://tinyurl.com/yu svfh
SPOILER! SPOILER! SPOILER! SPOILER! SPOILER! SPOILER! SPOILER SPOILER! People who SPOIL are A S S H O L E S !!!!!!!!!
so good to know yea im saving them to see if they are real i let my mom read it cause she just wanted to know and then SHE TOLD ME....i was livid threatened to move out for a week until i was done reading....but as im only 16 it wouldnt work lol
You know there always has to be someone out there that will enviably try to spoil it for everyone!
Spoonsy-- haha thats right.. LUE doesn't exsist :) ... and those 495 photographs don't exsist on there either :)
i don't think they were real......i just think it was an infringement with Gaia and they had to get the spoilers off of that website because they probably signed a deal with Bloomsbury saying that they wouldn't post spoilers but they did.........So the verdict is they weren't real and the reason they had to get rid of the spoilers is because of an infringement on a deal.
Hopefully we won't have any drive-by spoiling like with the last book.
ahh well im looking at the scans now im just glancing at them i am really tempted to read the ending:(
ginnyw_jf -toally agree with you. hpfreak07 is a fread. He was toally putting up so many spoilersin MN comments the other day. He needs to go bck to the mental hospital. and Tony_the_Terrible so totally agree with you
The spoilers had to be real to get a subpoena, don't you guys know anything about the law? They can't just ask for someone's personal information unless they get a court to agree, in which case they have to prove that the pictures this guy posted were actually from book 7.
hey im back! whats goin' on?
dumbledork62442 they don't have to be real to get a subpoena. All that has had to happen is an infringement of rights or infringement of a recorded deal. they don't have to prove that the pictures really came from book 7, all they have to do is to prove fraud.
Bluk0-RESIST THE TEMPTSTION ONLY 3 DAYS LEFT BE STRONG
The scanned pages and the photographed book are both real, Moonshine. That's what's up. Run for your life for the spoilers are REAL.
I read the spoilers too and of course I'm blaming myself because I could just have stayed away from the comments and so on. I'm not upset that I've read the spoilers, I just really really hope they're not true because I don't like "that" ending. Although I just read about the deaths, I didn't click on the link with the details. But anyway, I so hope it's a fake.
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