Scholastic gets subpoena to identify spoiler
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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Posted by LGMB Jul 20th 2007

The photo book seems quite like JKR's writing style, it's just got a terrible plot. There are a number of questions that were supposed to be answered that weren't, and the description of what happens to a secret when the keeper dies in the book is NOT the same as the description Jo gave on her website. There are only two scenarios. 1. This is the real book, and it is terrible. 2. Jo wrote a fake book and allowed it to be leaked to help preserve the privacy of the real book. There is no way the leaked book is fan fiction.


Posted by LeeA Jul 20th 2007

Several days ago, I decided the online jpg book was fake, due to stylistic problems. However after thinking about all the the books, each book was significantly different in style and tone than the one before it, particularly after book 2. So that is probably not enough to prove it is fake. Personally, I thought it was excellent. If fan fiction, far and away the best ever! I will be in line to buy the real book tonight, and won't be really surprised if this online copy is the actual book. I sort of hope it is not though, because each real book has been far better than the best fan fiction.




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