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 xioyux Jul 17th 2007

It's very true. The guy worked at a book store and grabbed a copy as soon as they were delivered. He took a photo of every page and uploaded it online. I couldn't resist finding out the ending. I will say that it is pretty much true, he uploaded the whole book online. Seriously, I hope he gets arrested.


Posted by JPN001 Jul 17th 2007

Not to dash anyone's hopes that the page number on the supposed Epilogue proves that it is fake (it ends on p.759 and the text is listed at 784 pages), but (as others have pointed out) the page count listed by Scholastic is the total numbers of pages bound, not a count of the numbered pages in the book. All books have several pages that are not numbered or that are numbered independently of the main text. The total bound page count includes blank pages, title pages, table of content pages, dedication pages, etc., not just the pages on which appears the main text of the book. Therefore, it is possible that page 759 could be the number of the last page of the main text even though the book is bound with 784 total pages. Of course, none of the above proves the Epilogue is real – the only proof of authenticity would be an admission by the publisher and/or author, or the actual text of the book that we will all see on July 21, 2007. Until then, it is all speculation. On another note, no offense, but many of you are conflating notions of copyright and trademark law. If scholastic is seeking to enforce a copyright, they are focusing on a reproduction of a creative work and the associated remedies, such as an injunction in the short term and damages in the long term. Things such as characters and place names are rarely copyrightable (although they may be trademarked in some circumstance), whereas artistic expression, such as the text of a novel, is copyrightable. Similarity only enters into the copyright discussion when the court considers whether one work is derived from another (generally similarity comes into play when a work is passed off as original but is actually in whole or in part copied), so unless Scholastic is alleging that the posted works are derivative works of the actual text of Deathly Hallows (not just a story derived from characters and events in the prior books), it is quite unlikely that this is an attempt to pull a similar work that is fan ...


Posted by potter87 Jul 17th 2007

if all these spoilers are tru they should mention all the things ppl want to know about , e.g who uses magic in special circumstances, why is lillys eyes so important who was in godrics hollow the night of the potters murder, why did dumbledor trust snape what is the room in the ministry what role does dumbledore play in the book who is the eir of gryfindor how do ravenclaw redeem themselved, these are just some of the things that we are to find out about yet for some reason the so called ppl who are posting spolirs havenot mentioned these things, so these spoilers are obviously made up because the above things a what we need to know abput aswell not just who dies and that draco has a child


Posted by snapeswench Jul 17th 2007

im just going to start writing lots of lists of "spoliers" then we will have soo much info coming to us that supposedly has validity that it wont matter! The truth will get lost in every possible "spoiler" listed...ha.. I think everyone should make their own spoiler list, type it up on photobucket, and edit their on fanfic onto copies of the scans....there we go! Problem solved :P


Posted by peroxwhy_gen Jul 17th 2007

Wow, I don't even know what to believe. THey're contridicting themselves. I know I spelled that wrong. But I take full responsibility for disrupting anyone's reading/sleeping if Remus dies. If you hear a loud, anguished wail, that's me baby.


Posted by sirius_lee Jul 17th 2007

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH HH JERKYHOLE IS BACK!!!! didnt u feel pain eniough yesterday when u got told and banned from chhesecake????


Posted by MissMalfoy Jul 17th 2007

i'll probably dream of cheesecake tonight! The Brave, Heroic cheesecake that defeated voldemort. GO CHEESECAKE!


Posted by hallowsaint Jul 17th 2007

YO STEPHENCOLBERT THAT WAS LIKE 5 MAIN CHARACTERS THAT YOU JUST SAID THAT DIED.....NO OFFENSE BUT THE AUTHOR OF THIS BOOK JKR SAID THAT ONLY 2 MAIN CHARACTERS DIED. CHEESECAKE CHEESECAKE WE ADORE THEE, CAKE OF WONDER, CAKE OF LIGHT, EVIL SPOILERS CRUMBLE LIKE DEATH BEFORE THEE, CHEESECAKE IS THE DOOR TO LIFE, FREE OF SPOILERS, LIFE OF ENJOYMENTS, CAKE OF LOVE, AND CAKE OF THE RIGHT, CHEESECAKE YOU ARE GREAT TO ALL EXCEPT THOSE NASTY DEATH AGGIES.


Posted by jerkyhole Jul 17th 2007

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Posted by moonshine Jul 17th 2007

yes_i_do_love_unicorns--- we all have our own inside joke now! cool!^_^


Posted by STEPHENCOLBERT Jul 17th 2007

All the spoilers I post are real, I've read the book. here is proof http://img444.imageshack. us/img444/7229/img3625na0 .jpg there aren't any spoilers at the link


Posted by ashurlito Jul 17th 2007

DONT WORRY SOME WHER PHOTOSHOPPED LIKE THE CHEESY ENDING!!


Posted by xioyux Jul 17th 2007

I can tell you that most of the "spoilers" posted in these comments are made up. But I can guarantee you that yes, the real spoilers are available online as this guy pretty much uploaded a photo of every page of the book onto the internet.


Posted by peroxwhy_gen Jul 17th 2007

Ugh, I'm feeling sick. I don't know if it's the spoilers and the saying that Remus will die or the fact that I'm doing a Harry Potter jeopardy in the afternoon tomrrow. Ick, nerves.


Posted by hpgirl21053 Jul 17th 2007

jerkyhole was killed by wonderfull cheesecakes after eating a huge chocolate moose!!!!!!!!!


Posted by potterfanatic37 Jul 17th 2007

i think that petunia will be the one to do magic late in life because it says that shes not a squib


Posted by hallowsaint Jul 17th 2007

well damnit stephencolbert take your unworthy self off of our site and spread the spoilers somewhere else....oh and your going to the cheesecake underworld when you die.......CHEESECAKE IS GOING TO WIN THE DAY AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A PARADE.....YAYE YAYE YAYE CHEESECAKE IS THE BEST THING EVER AND WILL RULE FOREVER AND DEFEAT THE NASTY DEATH AGGIES WHO POST NASTY SPOILERS ON SUPPOSEDLY SPOILER FREE WEBSITES YEAH YEAH YEAH.


Posted by sirius_lee Jul 17th 2007

CHEESECAKE SHOULD BE MUGGLENETS THEME!!!!!!! and spoilers dont get any!!! HAHAHAH!! thats the cruelest punishment! i think rob15 started it. he kept mentioning it then yesterday evry1 talked about it, me and moonshine stayed up talking about that!!!! lololololol


Posted by moonshine Jul 17th 2007

*scary music* jerkyhole strikes again!(with the exact same message hes posted 15 trillion times.....-_-)


Posted by ImTheLastHorcrux Jul 17th 2007

I read the entire book (all the pictures mentioned) and I am pretty sure this is legit. I won't give away any spoilers, but considering everything that we have speculated over the past couple years and the things that we already know WILL happen in the book, this is either real or a VERY VERY good fake.


Posted by joeymw Jul 17th 2007

Why do people have to be such [insert the swear of butt (this is what my son says so he won't get in trouble!)]. These spoiling types need to be hexed within an inch of their lives. My daughter msn'd me an excerpt she found on-line that was supposed to be the opening paragraph from Book 7 or something. I immediately closed the window, and told her to NEVER send me anything of the sort again. People who try to spoil the experience for the rest of us really are "the worst sort of Muggles imaginable". I am glad that the HP publishers have the legal means of addressing these issues, and that they pursue them so assiduously. Get 'em guys!


Posted by SteffieSnape Jul 17th 2007

Geez, they're FINALLY doing something about it! I'm afraid now that the leak has been of the actual book and one or some of the spoilers going round must be true. I'm not sure which though. I've seen two different spoilers on a group of people who die... I'm not sure which to believe and I'm not going to because I'll find out when I read the book for myself. Sigh.... I hope that person who they're going after gets it... big time! I think jail time is sufficient, and buttload of fees so he or she will be in debt for the rest of their miserable little life! Grrrrrrrrr!!! On a happier note... I'm glad to see we've recruited more CHEESECAKEIANS!!! YAAAAAAY CHEESECAKE!!!! Hallowsaint.... good job on the recruiting. Soon the whole world will realize the awesome powers of cheesecake!


Posted by Gryffinclaw Jul 17th 2007

People think about this, Jo has given us a wonderful story over the last ten years, we can't believe that the Horrible ending to our book series is true. The ending didn't even make sense **SPOILER ALERT** if Ron did die how then is he there at 9 and 3/4, how can he have kids? That doesn't make sense, the books are under lock and key and while its possible they could get out I don't believe this is true.


Posted by darklordangel Jul 17th 2007

Thank God they stopped him. ^_^


Posted by natalie96 Jul 17th 2007

hey u no all about this talk about cheese cake..........wat if the strawberries r moldy on the strawberry cheese cake?????


Posted by hpgirl21053 Jul 17th 2007

so, i just read a LEGIT spoiler and : JERYHOLE WAS KILLED BY BELLATRIX, AND ANNIE THE OLIVE CAME BACK OUT OF THIN AIR AND APPLAUDED BELLATRIX FOR KILLING, THEN SHE KILLED BELLATRIX!!!! the end


Posted by xioyux Jul 17th 2007

It's not fake. You can't fake things like this. Especially the low-resolution letters. Also, he wouldn't be purchased by the publisher if this was a fake. Trust me, this guy uploaded the entire book online.


Posted by ashurlito Jul 17th 2007

TRUST ME THOSE ARE FAKE MY COUSIN READ THE WHOLE BOOK AND SAID THAT IT WONT END LIKE THAT THE U.K ONE BUT HE SAID THE U.S ONE IS SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT AHAHAHAHAH GOOD THING I GET THE U.K ONE I FEEL SORRY FOR AMERICANS BECAUSE THEY GOT THE ON ETHAT WAS COPYED AND THEY READ IT !!


Posted by sirius_lee Jul 17th 2007

k, tell me wuz it rob 15 who started our theme of cheesecake or wuz it hallowsaint? i think it was rob cuz he kept mentioning it last week and then ever1 started talking about it yesterday when we were having an 8 hour conversation with jerky***hole


Posted by yes_i_do_love_unicorns Jul 17th 2007

I'm pretty sure rob15 started the cheesecake phenomena


Posted by moonshine Jul 17th 2007

sirius_lee----i think that cheesecake would make a good theme. or....HARRY POTTER THEMED CHEESECAKE!!! YAY!


Posted by loby Jul 17th 2007

It did not have to BE a copy of JKR's HP & the Deathly Hallows that the person uploaded for Scholastic to seek legal redress based upon copyright infringment; the fact that it was REPRESENTED as a copy of DH was enough to make it illegal.


Posted by meganrm Jul 17th 2007

why do people feel a need to ruin it for everyone?? its ridiculous...


Posted by MissMalfoy Jul 17th 2007

Snape rules the CHEESECAKE ARMY!!!!!!!!


Posted by indiansummersky Jul 17th 2007

I wish Bloomsbury or Scholastic or whoever would break their silence on this. It's getting pretty out of hand.


Posted by ashurlito Jul 17th 2007

it was actually rob15 and me we wher talking about something then we said something about cheescake then we kept on saying that but then i was into i love french FRIESSS FRENCH FRIESS RULEEEEE WOOOOHOOOOO LONG LIVE THE CHEESCAKE AND FRENCH FRIE KING AND QUEEN!!!!!!!!! props to you all!!!! cheescake and french frie lovers!


Posted by dobbysbasilisk Jul 17th 2007

why cant you fake things like this, xioyux?


Posted by hpgirl21053 Jul 17th 2007

well, apparently jerkyhole has gained a little weight, because it is taking longer for this jerkyhole to type up his spoils, but i think the best spoiler i read, hope it is right, that BELLA KILLED JERKYHOLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i think its LEGIT, i love hearing that word, cause i think people think it makes them sound like they r telling the truth, but i think after reading my favorite book, CHEESECAKE makes u sound soooooo much SMARTER....but cheesecake died, without his strawberries....without his wonderful MOLDY strawberries.........mayb e bellatrix ate some and that's why she is bad....cause i would be mad too if i had moldy strawberries. they must give u some BAD gas....


Posted by sirius_lee Jul 17th 2007

moonshine- YEAH!!!!!!! THEY COULD HAVE THE ACTORS FACE ON THEM OR SHAPED LIKE THEM... CURTESY OF MUGGLENET!!!!!!!!!


Posted by yes_i_do_love_unicorns Jul 17th 2007

I think I remember the french fries thing too :)


Posted by potterfanatic37 Jul 17th 2007

if you pre-order a book from amazon will it come on saturday?


Posted by Gryffinclaw Jul 17th 2007

What if Ron ate the Horcrux Cheesecake that Voldy made. That would explain some things


Posted by moonshine Jul 17th 2007

sirius_lee----hp character-shaped cheesecake sculptures! awsome! they could hold contests of who could make the best sculpture! that would be so cool!


Posted by potter87 Jul 17th 2007

if you order on amazon you need to order by wed night or u wont get it


Posted by snapeswench Jul 17th 2007

SPOLERS**************Im pretty sure that Trelawney kills Voldy, becomes the new leader of the DE's-Draco and Pansy kill Peter, Lucius, Snape, Bellatrix and all the other Death Eaters on Trewlaney's orders. Ron, Hermione and Lupin and Tonks decide to move in together and start a hippie commune for wizards-Luna's idea. Mad eye moody decides to teach ''building birdhouses without magic 101.'' Luna kills Harry under Trewlaney's imperius curse right before she falls in love with both fred and george, but dies after ODing on Love potion and fever fudge. Sirius comes back to life and marries tonks... which really pisses off lupin and he goes "all wolfy" on the commune and wipes everyone out..Krum comes back and reopens hogwarts-renaming it "Hermione's school of witchcraft and wizardy." Ginny and Neville die at Bill and Fleurs wedding after being caught by Harry in the attic of the burrow gettin busy. Oh gracious, it's a dark world indeed. Yep, it's true-sorry to spoil it for you :P :P :P :P :P ****************SPOILERS!


Posted by bringmethehorizon Jul 17th 2007

Yes the stupid bastar.d who spoiled the book for me is going to pay. Now he is forced to go to court and whats he going to say? Going against a huge companys lawyers HAHA I hope hes fined like millions of dollars make him regret ever doing it.


Posted by HarrysRule1986 Jul 17th 2007

Wow, having read book seven the editorial "Is Harry the Son of God" is dead on. An amazing prediction.


Posted by Meridiem Jul 17th 2007

I'm a Gaia member. ...I suppose this means I hafta part ways with Gaia for the rest of the week now. And there was just a story update. At least I didn't stumble on the pages, eh?


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Posted by hpgirl21053 Jul 17th 2007

OMG CHEESECAKE KILLS VOLDY snapeswench!!!!!!!!!!!! omg, i could totally see it...u r right, omg....this is sooooo CHEESECAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! because every character that kills VOLDY magically turns into cheesecake....man this is soooo GREAT




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