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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moonshine--- yeah and mugglenet will offer the prize cuz we have created the theme 4 it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAAAAY 4 CHEESECAKE!!! LEMME HEAR A WOOP WOOP
i cant look at this site anymore until i read the book. I dont have enough will power to not look at spoiler sites or comments, and now it is driving me crazy!!! AHHHH.
i ordered the book on amazon in march but i just wanted to know if anybody knew if it would come on saturday
I freaking KNEW that this would happen again. Some user on Gaia spoiled HBP for me. This time, I vowed that one month before the release, I'd stay out of all forums and block all private messages and profile comments from people I don't know. I still haven't seen the spoiler, nor do I want to... But when the HBP spoiler leaked out, I thought for sure that it was fake, but in the end I was just disappointed, and it took a lot of the thrill away.
Why can't people just leave the book alone? Why must some people ruin it for others? I have been waiting for this since I was in third grade. Now they are all ruining it for me. :(
STEPHENCOLBERT- I might believe you, if you can explain how Ron dies, but yet appears to be in the Epilogue 19 years later.
i think people who spoil have just never experienced cheesecake.....and people....DON'T HATE ON THE CHEESECAKE..........CHEES ECAKE isn't WACK!!!!
yeah the book comes on saturday aslong as your ordered it atleast 3 days beofre saturday
Don't let them get to you Medwards... they are posting junk that isn't true. These are all simple theories we all could have thought about ourselves. We won't really know until Friday when we read the book. Just be aware that there will probably be some jerkwod at every bookstore that runs out yelling SO AND SO DIED... remember that it might not be true and enjoy the book. Can't wait!!!
Gaia ruined the end of HBP for me; I'm not going to make the same mistake twice... the only sites I'm trusting from now until the release are Mugglenet, Deviantart, and Gmail.
One last comment on copyright law -- many of you are hoping for jail time for the infringer, but criminal copyright infringement is very rare (and difficult to prove). Most likely any case brought will be for civil damages. Oh, by the way, copyright infringement is a strict liability act, which means the law does not require the holder to prove intent to infringe (except in criminal infringement cases where the infringement must be willful), but rather only that the work has been copied without authorization. In the US, under the Napster case and its progeny, merely downloading an electric copy of a copyrighted work is sufficient to constitute infringement – lack of intent to infringe, or even lack of knowledge that the work was copyrighted, is not a defense. Anyone who has downloaded an electronic copy of the infringing work (even if the download was an automatic deposit of the file into a temporary internet folder when the user clicked on a link to open an image of a page of the book) may be liable for copyright infringement, and if the work is registered with the US Copyright Office, then the copyright holder can ask for up to $30,000 in statutory damages for each infringement (more in certain very limited situations). Cheers!
yeah CHEESECAKE IS AWESOME! WE SHOULD FORM A CHEESECAKE SOCIETY!
I've written a complaint to Mugglenet to have jerkyhole banned. Not that I really believe what he's posting, it's just getting ridiculous. I personally believe he will be killed by Bella stuffing him full of CHEESECAKE and then dropping him in to a box of starving blast-ended skrewts. That'll sort him out :) Long live cheesecake!
YAE CHEESE CAKE IS MY LIFE!!!!!!!!! u noe wut would be a perfect day? no spoilers so i could enjoy redaing dh and it just arrived and i wuz reading it while eating... u guessed it: CHEESECAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!
ik... this sucks... I am sorry to say this, but I'm staying far far ayaw from the comments... I've unconciuously read a looot of spoilers... I hope they're fake! But, just in case, I'll stay far far far far away... Cheesecake for everyone!
IM SO MAD AT THAT PERSON!!!! I SWEAR IF I EVER SEE THEM IN REAL LIFE I'LL (IN UNCLE VERNON'S VOICE) GIVE THE OLD ONE TWO!!!
hey yo cheesecakeians it was Rob15 who started it but he started it by talking to me and so me and him kept talking about it until now everyone loves cheesecake......it's awfully strange that Rob15 hasn't been on here but I am still continuing the kingdom of cheesecake anyway for this is what Rob15 would want me to do.CHEESECAKE IS GREAT CHEESECAKE IS GREAT CHEESECAKE IS GREAT CHEESECAKE IS GREAT CHEESECAKE IS GREAT CHEESECAKE IS GREAT CHEESECAKE IS GREAT CHEESECAKE IS GREAT CHEESECAKE IS GREAT CHEESECAKE IS GREAT CHEESECAKE IS GREAT CHEESECAKE IS GREAT CHEESECAKE IS GREAT CHEESECAKE IS GREAT CHEESECAKE IS GREAT CHEESECAKE IS GREAT CHEESECAKE IS GREAT CHEESECAKE IS GREAT CHEESECAKE IS GREAT CHEESECAKE IS GREAT CHEESECAKE IS GREAT CHEESECAKE IS GREAT CHEESECAKE IS GREAT CHEESECAKE IS GREAT CHEESECAKE IS GREAT CHEESECAKE IS GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH (JUMPS UP AND DOWN AND DOES THE CHEESECAKEIAN DANCE)
how cool would that be if Trelawney really did turn out to be a DE! haha...i was just kidding but that's funny.
spoilers just SPOIL the book most of the ones posted are pretty ridiculous i have the BIGGEST craving for CHEESECAKE thanks potter87
ok we need to form a cheesecake club. say so if you want to be in it! i am now officially a member!
we are the CHEESECAKE ARMY!!! THE CA!!! :)
do the cheesecake dance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! all members of the cheesecake society anyways. spoilers not included!!!!!! hoe do u do the cheesecake dance??????????
http://rs38.rapidshare.co m/files/43351312/For_Bett er_or_for_Banjo_SUEDE_EDI TION.zip this is a link to download the entire book
I NOMINATE ROB15 TO PRESIDENT OF CLUB, ME VICE PRESIDENT, MISS MALFOY ATTORNEY GENERAL, MOONSHINE TREASURER, AND WHOEVER ELSE WHO WANTS TO JOIN MAKE UP YOUR OWN POSITIONS.........BUT CHEESECAKE IS THE SUPREME RULER
There already IS a cheesecake club. Hallowsaint and myself started it a few days ago. It's called C.H.E.R! However, there can never be enough cheesecakers! ::joins hallowsaint in the cheesecake dance::
It doesn't matter what the rumors or spoilers are... NOTHING is absolute until JK says it. And we didn't all fall in love with Harry's world because of a few ideas, taken out of context, we fell in love with JK's writing as a whole package. Nothing and no one can ruin that for us, short of some loser bookstore breaking the embargo.
Guys, there was a VIDEO with men with blurry faces holding up the book and revealing spoilers. I don't know if this is genuine but it looked pretty genuine to me. :( Can someone please try and disprove this? The videos have been taken down on YouTube and sadly, I saw a few seconds. I thought it was fake but it definitely seems real. How did they get permission to do that? Such horrible people for going out of their way to ruin other people's experience! I wish I never saw or heard any of that and I'm hoping it's fake. I'm so sad. I've been waiting for years and, 3 days before the release, I get spoilt. I didn't hear them all, just 1, but that's enough to annoy me.
ok now who is a member so far?
I was on 4chan and they gave a bunch of spoilers. http://www.y outube.com/watch?v=G_vas- 7a7is that's the video that has the spoilers, there is a little bit of non spoiler first, to disguise it. I was on 4chan and they gave a bunch of spoilers. http://www.y outube.com/watch?v=G_vas- 7a7is that's the video that has the spoilers, there is a little bit of non spoiler first, to disguise it. I was on 4chan and they gave a bunch of spoilers. http://www.y outube.com/watch?v=G_vas- 7a7is that's the video that has the spoilers, there is a little bit of non spoiler first, to disguise it. I was on 4chan and they gave a bunch of spoilers. http://www.y outube.com/watch?v=G_vas- 7a7is that's the video that has the spoilers, there is a little bit of non spoiler first, to disguise it.
i want to be a part of the cheesecake club!!!!!!!! totally agreed kneazel
HEY EVERYBODY, THE SUPPOSED SPOILER IS A LIE. YES, THEY ARE ORDERING A SUBPOENA, BUT THE ACTUAL "SPOILER" ITSELF IS A LIE. TOO MANY INCONSISTENCIES WITHIN ITSELF. LIKE THEM SAYING THAT RON DIES, BUT THEN LATER, IN THE EPILOGUE, THEY SAY THAT HE IS ALIVE AND HAS CHILDREN, SO DON"T BELIEVE IT.
i'm in the club!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CHEESECAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!! thnx rob15!!!!!! ^_^
I'm the attorney general of the cheesecake club. i get to decide which cheesecakes are the most yummiest!
OKAY ALL MEMBERS OF C.H.E.R.(CHEESECAKE HAS EQUAL RIGHTS) MUST SAY:"I WILL NOT READ SPOILERS, OR MAKE THEM, I WILL GET ROB15 CHEESECAKE WHENEVER HE ASKS, I VOW TO DEFEAT THE DEATH AGGIES AND HOUSIFA DAFARKA." ALL HAIL CHEESECAKE
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The spoilers are probably not real. The publisher had this quote to say: "We are encouraging people not to do this. This happens with every book, and there are a lot of them out there, and we appeal to everybody not to put them up. It's amazing how creative people can be. It may look real, but it doesn't mean they are."
Yes, but the spoilers in the video seem genuine. They were holding the actual BOOK and they even filmed the COPYRIGHT page. Can someone please try and disprove it because it looked VERY genuine to me, sadly. :(:(
"I WILL NOT READ SPOILERS, OR MAKE THEM, I WILL GET ROB15 CHEESECAKE WHENEVER HE ASKS, I VOW TO DEFEAT THE DEATH AGGIES AND HOUSIFA DAFARKA." ALL HAIL CHEESECAKE wut position do i get?
I just saw some scans and I'm not going to lie, they look 100% real, I mean you can see the book covers and everything. A lot of the people on here are posting REAL spoilers so I wouldn't keep reading if I was you, because I repeat, these look freaking real and I'm a pretty skeptical person.
ok there is hallowsaint, sirius_lee, missmalfoy, potterfanatic37, me(moonshine^_^), and im guessig that hpgirl21053 wants to be part of the club considering how many times she wrote cheesecake....anyone else?
I WILL NOT READ SPOILERS, OR MAKE THEM, I WILL GET ROB15 CHEESECAKE WHENEVER HE ASKS, I VOW TO DEFEAT THE DEATH AGGIES AND HOUSIFA DAFARKA." and i vow to cheer everytime i hear that jerkyhole was killed by bellatrix and her moldy stawberry cheesecake gas!!!!!!!!! hhahahaha
UM SIRIUS_LEE, YOU GET SURGEON GENERAL: THIS MEANS THAT YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO HEAL ALL CHEESECAKEIANS. ANYWAY I'M GOING FOR A LITTLE WHILE NOW TO GO FINISH HBP FOR LIKE THE 100TH TIME BUT ALWAYS REMEMBER LOVE, PEACE, AND CHEESECAKE!!!!!!!!!!
I WILL NOT READ SPOILERS, OR MAKE THEM, I WILL GET ROB15 CHEESECAKE WHENEVER HE ASKS, I VOW TO DEFEAT THE DEATH AGGIES AND HOUSIFA DAFARKA." ALL HAIL CHEESECAKE and all hail SEVERUS SNAPE :)
i doubt the spilers are realy why would harry call his child albus SEVERUS i could undersatnd albus but why Severus harry hated snape
Potter87, stop saying the spoilers. Jesus Christ..
I read some of it. If it was fanfic, it was the only fanfic that I've ever read which came off as genuine. I will give nothing away and only look more forward to reading the rest (or all of it if the online book was fake) on Saturday. By the way, the cheesecake thing has been around for a while: Harry Putter and the Chamber of Cheesecakes by Timothy R. O'Donnell — a 2004 American parody self-published through lulu.com. ISBN 978-1411606883 (taken from Wikipedia)
Arg. I was on a facebook group, entirely unrelated to Harry Potter, when sombody posted a link and encourage people to follow it (he said it was a vid of him playing... so i was curious) and i followed. It was a spoiler site with the last part of the link being somthing like d/hallows or somthing like that. I was wondering if anybod knew if this site was real, cause i read some but not all. I hope it isnt, not because I didnt like what i read, but because it ruins the suspence when reading. I guess my plan of reading the book all night and finishing before most people have there copy is pretty useless... oh well, ill still do it. :)
Does this mean that te spoilers at www.zendurl.com/hallows/ r correct, if so i am gunna beat that Faggs ass all fuckin night god in gunna murder the people who ruin the book 4 people
HEY I READ THIS ONE SPOILER BUT IT WAS BEFORE I BECAME A CHEESECAKEIAN ANYWAY IT'S NOT REAL BECAUSE THAT EPILOGUE YOU KNOW 19 YEARS LATER OR WHATEVER CAN'T BE REAL UNLESS ONLY LIKE 3 CHARACTERS SURVIVED AND JKR SAID HERSELF THAT IT WOULD CONTAIN WHO BECAME THE HOGWARTS TEACHERS AND THE PROFESSIONS OF ALL THE MAIN CHARACTERS YET FOR SOME REASON THIS EPILOGUE ONLY MENTIONS HARRY, GINNY, AND SNAPE AS SURVIVING CHARACTERS I THINK ALL HAIL CHEESECAKE AND NOW I'M SERIOUSLY GOING TO READ.
just kill them with cheesecakes, that will surely be sufficient
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