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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Visitor Comments
Posted by hp_rox_my_sox15 Jul 17th 2007

i go on gaia online... and i never saw the spoiler tho!!! thank god!


Posted by Gryffinclaw Jul 17th 2007

OMG NO SNAPE KILLED DUMBLEDORE


Posted by Gryffinclaw Jul 17th 2007

OMG NO SNAPE KILLED DUMBLEDORE


Posted by hallowsaint Jul 17th 2007

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.


Posted by hallowsaint Jul 17th 2007

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.


Posted by potterfanatic37 Jul 17th 2007

ok so the only real way to know real spoilers would be to have read the book and so for those people who claim to have read the book why would you waste your time on a site like this? there is not point so i highly doubt that anybody on this site who claims their spoilers are real have read the book


Posted by moonshine Jul 17th 2007

ok so when we are all going to talk(about cheesecake of course) we can say, "CALLING ALL CHEESECAKEIANS!"


Posted by dumbledork62442 Jul 17th 2007

This is what I think. I think the pictures of the Epilogue is fake. Simply because it doesn't sound like JKR, and it's very, very short, only about four pages or so, and it only tells us about a handful of characters, I think the real epilogue is going to be longer and will go into detail about everyone, including secondary characters like Seamus and Dean Thomas. However, there are scans of the following pages: 56, 57, 72, 73, 78, 79, 138-9, 162-3, 366-7, 398-9, 426-7, 476 that reveal 3 death, and injury that look authentic


Posted by Norainen Jul 17th 2007

What about the video though? The video looked really genuine, and there has been virtually nobody or hype about it! It's even been taken down on YouTube! They show the book and reveal spoilers. Is this fake or real? It looked real and I wish I hadn't seen ANYTHING of it!


Posted by hpgirl21053 Jul 17th 2007

HEY DID U KNOW THAT IN THE EPILOGUE CHEESECAKE BECAME THE RULER OF THE WORLD...............I THINK ITs F'ING REAL!!!!!!!!!!!!ahhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhh


Posted by SPEW07 Jul 17th 2007

what is a cheesecakeians?


Posted by whonext360 Jul 17th 2007

Unfortunately some things have been spoiled for me thanks to ComcastNews I thought it was an article on spoilers turns out it was a link to the spoilers luckily I didn't read all of it but it was right in my face so its really bothering me right now!!!


Posted by hp_rox_my_sox15 Jul 17th 2007

not necessarily, potterfanatic37 .... i think that if people read the book, they would go to this site to get a kick out of annoying us!! (not that i agree)


Posted by MissMalfoy Jul 17th 2007

yeah Cheesecake became the ruler of the world, and all the little cheesecakes looked up to King Cheesecake and followed in his heroic strawberry footsteps. thats what happens in the epilogue! whoah! i never saw that coming!


Posted by potterfanatic37 Jul 17th 2007

i really dont think that any spoilers that are posted are real ( i mean of course they could happen) but the people that post them dont know or they wouldnt waste their time putting them up


Posted by moonshine Jul 17th 2007

SPEW07---the cheesecakeians is our club that we just formed. in it you discuss harry potter and cheesecake.


Posted by Gryffinclaw Jul 17th 2007

whonext360 the same darn thing happened to me i hate comcast.net! Guys its not real the picture showw is ends on page 759 but the book has already been said to end on 784 and it is the number of pages of written text. IT IS FAKE I REPEAT FAKE


Posted by Pyro1121 Jul 17th 2007

I saw some of these supposed "spoilers" on deviantart today and I was sent some random wall post on facebook with the exact same thing. IMO, these spoilers are a load of bull****. Just some bored a-hole with too much time on their hands.


Posted by hpgirl21053 Jul 17th 2007

i know, it was the most amazing epilogue EVER, i cried like a little baby finding their first cheesecake.......god, it was like seeing the gates of heaven.....ahhh, i think i might cry my little cheesecakeian heart out again.....


Posted by whonext360 Jul 17th 2007

Gryffinclaw do you think the ones on Comcast were real?


Posted by Norainen Jul 17th 2007

But ignore the pics for one second. There was a VIDEO with guys with blurry faces and actually HOLDING the book cover and filming the copyright. Then revealing a series of, what sounded like, very genuine spoilers. Is this real or fake? I wonder why this hasn't entered the radar yet! It's already been removed from YouTube!


Posted by MoondustWolf2 Jul 17th 2007

1. This supoena does nothing to tell us whether the spoilers were real or fake. A copyright infringment has to do with the public use of owned canon without the owner's permission. In this case, the use and abuse of Harry Potter story and characters without J.K. Rowling's permission. It could mean her story was taken and released before the allowed date. It could also mean someone took their own version of things and gave it to the public as Jo's work, which it was not. Either ay, what they did was against the law, and actions against them don't tell us whether what was posted was actually from Deathly Hallows or not. 2. However, if they are spoilers, while it is up to the fans to decide for themselves whether they like each book or not, it is not for us to proclaim what Jo's "style" is. I'm sorry you're dissapointed. What little I saw sparked my interest. I will say I will be slightly displeased if the epilogue is real, but this is because *POSSIBLE SPOILER*I've never been a fan of flash-foward "reflections on life" at the end of books/movies*END POSSIBLE SPOILER* If Jo put it in, she liked it, and all the more to her for it. Opinions make the world go 'round and with a book this huge, some will be let down and angry. It's sad, but it's a fact of life. 3. "Just don't go on those sites" is not a valid argument. Gaia Online itself, for example, has nothing to do with Harry Potter (to the best of my knowledge) The spoilers can show up anywhere and everywhere without knowing, through unmoderated posting, by way of hacker, or in any avatar or comment simply by someone wanting to be a jerk. To be completely safe, someone would have to avoid the internet and mass media alltogether, and forcing them into that position because someone else was selfish and attention-starved is highly unfair. 4. That said, while I understand some of you happened to find the book's biggest secrets just as you were scanning down a page, perhaps by having a death announced in bold print...


Posted by dumbledork62442 Jul 17th 2007

I don't know why you all find it so hard to believe that there can be real spoilers out the web considering OotP was ruined for me a WEEK before it even came out via pictures of the page where Snape killed Dumbledore


Posted by MissMalfoy Jul 17th 2007

i know! i cried rivers of strawberry cheesecake, especially when that little cheesecake got its first Cheesecake Birthday Party! and King Cheesecake was so proud, as he sat on his cheesecake throne!


Posted by Dperu13122792 Jul 17th 2007

wow people who post spoilers suck. weve all been waiting for 10 years to figure out how it ends NOONE should spoil it for us. thats some bull. and people need to stop posting spoilers on here bcuz thats just if not more irritating. people who are posting spoilers here should expect A TON of people to get pist aty them, including me


Posted by Katealano17 Jul 17th 2007

wow, that means they probably are real. i'm just glad i didn't see them. i feel so bad for the people it was spoiled for!


Posted by hpgirl21053 Jul 17th 2007

dumbledork62442 , i am glad u got ur books straight...i mean we ALL know dumbledore died in OotP, don't we!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! cheesecakes are yummy


Posted by Gryffinclaw Jul 17th 2007

First whosnext360 I dont believe the comcast was real. secondly dumbledork um thats funny how dumbledore was killed by snape in order of the phoenix, seeing as there were no pictures of it or the fact that HE DIED IN HALFBLOOD PRINCE you moron


Posted by sarahL Jul 17th 2007

Do you know what I find really stupid .! Is that ppl are actually putting spoilers on these comments . Like you must not be a big HP fan if you are spoiling the Last & Final Harry Potter book, for everybody! But I guess you have to be pretty stupid if you read them. Maybe they aren't real .. but how do we know? They could be. And I for one would be really sad if I read the book, and I had read spoilers just to find out that they were true. Like this is really p'ing me off. And potterfanatic37 didn't you read the article? The spoilers most likely are real if scholastic is getting involved. But it's just really sad that ppl would do stuff like that.


Posted by ackermaniv Jul 17th 2007

like someone said (and maybe more of you... i'm not gonna read all the comments)-- they infringe copyright by simply using the name 'harry potter' in a published source. this subpoena doesn't mean the it was true. in fact, they could be doing this knowing that the info was false just to keep people thinking the spoilers were true.


Posted by wimbledonsweetie Jul 17th 2007

ok, this story's definitely real. not thinking, this morning i clicked and found out who dies before i had the sense to exit the site. but i can tell you that there are shots of the actual writing in the book.


Posted by hp_rox_my_sox15 Jul 17th 2007

i think that it definitely was a real spoiler, considering how little monitered the boards on gaia are, and also.. why else would scholastic be trying so hard to find that person??


Posted by dumbledork62442 Jul 17th 2007

I meant HBP, but not that you do mention it Sirius death was spoiled for me before OotP came out as well.


Posted by Norainen Jul 17th 2007

But what about the video? The video has men holding the BOOK. And filming the COPYRIGHT. And then revealing what seemed like GENUINE spoilers.


Posted by moonshine Jul 17th 2007

ok who of the cheesecakeians is still here? some people havent responded for a while.


Posted by ukhazard Jul 17th 2007

People who still believe it's fake are unfortunately deluded. There are pictures of each and every page, with all the text readable if you zoom in.


Posted by MissMalfoy Jul 17th 2007

some of us cheesecakians are here moonshine including me


Posted by hpgirl21053 Jul 17th 2007

u know, i think these spoiler are FO REAL!!!!!! cause, come on, if cheesecake becomes ruler, then we know they r LEGIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Posted by sarahL Jul 17th 2007

Oh actually . I take some of that back .MoondustWolf2 had a point about it being like .. just being like copyright. and wtf is the "cheesecakeians" ?


Posted by xunkn0wndr3amx Jul 17th 2007

Do you guys think the think about Ron is real because thats the only spoiler i read and if it is i'm going to be pissed ?!?


Posted by hp_rox_my_sox15 Jul 17th 2007

I HATE SPOILERS!!!


Posted by Dobby4ever Jul 17th 2007

Why does somepeople do such thingss?! - I don't get it! I've not read it, I don't want to read it, I hope it wasn't true, but it might have been since Scholastics went after them. The one who did that got what he deserved. I don't read anything which could be a spoiler for me, no matter how big the temptation might be. I agree with Potterfanatic37. People shouldn't read all these possible spoilers, because if we don't then the book will get all the glory it deserves, and no one will (hopefully) be disapointed.


Posted by dans_1_fan Jul 17th 2007

OMG!!! since scholastic did that, it must mean the spoilers were accurate!! thank god i didn't read it! i'd rather die! i feel soo bad 4 the people that read that! that's gotta suck!


Posted by moonshine Jul 17th 2007

hey guys i have to leave for now but i will be back in a while. see you later!


Posted by dumbledork62442 Jul 17th 2007

I didn't insult anyone on here so there is no need to insult me, I trust we can all remain civil can't we? All I'm saying is that the last two HP books were leaked on the web before their release via people taking pictures/scanning pages where important characters were killed such as Sirius, and Dumbledore, and just so that you know, this isn't just some unsubstantiated rumor circulating the web, unless you consider MSNBC reporters liars here is the link http://redtape.msnbc.com/ 2007/07/pirates-say-the.h tml to their story, I know some of you don't want to click links so just go to their main page, MSNBC.com and go to the entertainment section on the left hand side and click the story for yourself, one of their reporters saw all 800+ pages


Posted by looneylovegood01 Jul 17th 2007

Wow, some people can be so mean. I don't really think that those spoilers, pictures, and etc. were real, but it's still really mean to try and ruin the last book for hard core fans that have been with the series for years. It's just sad, really.


Posted by hpgirl21053 Jul 17th 2007

all i know is-------------SPOILER--- -------------- ron gets saved by a magic cheesecake and then eats it and then the cheesecake has a lot of fun... CCCHHHHHHHHCHHH HHHHCHHHHHHCHHHEESECAKE!! !


Posted by dobbysbasilisk Jul 17th 2007

there was a thing in the paper.. bout a month ago.. it was saying that somebody had made a entire book up, which was deathly hallows, anyway it was entirely made up, and its probably the same book. some people like to get their fun out of making books up and posting them on the internet ana, i wouldnt worry bout them anyway


Posted by tabitoo Jul 17th 2007

Ha...Ha....I hope they get what they deserve.


Posted by jerkyhole Jul 17th 2007

BELLATRIX KILLS RON, NEVILLE KILLS BELLA, VOLDY KILLS SNAPE, PERCY AND LUPIN DIE, HARRY KILLS VOLDEMORT!




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