techcrunch.com— It didn?t take long for Scholastic, the U.S. publisher of the Harry Potter books, to send us a takedown notice for our post ?The Latest Harry Potter Book Hits BitTorrent.?
Jul 19, 2007View in Crawl 4
Being legal and ethical aren't necessarily the same, just because something is ILLEGAL doesn't make it WRONG. There are plenty of stupid laws around and there are laws in other countries that allow for raped women to be stoned to death.I downloaded the HP7 torrent and have already read the book on my PSP, but I'm still going to buy it since I want the series and other people in my family will want to read it also. I download other books also, if I didn't download them I would just be getting them from the library which is more time consuming and inconvenient. In both cases my downloading hasn't cost anyone money. Possibly the library funding is based on amount of rentals and the funding goes to buying books from authors but I still rent from the library anyway but the amount of books I download wouldn't be possible to rent.
I read the whole thing, cover to cover, because I got sucked in (and I have really good eyesight). I am buying a book, and am considering buying another just to make up for my immorality. I feel bad for breaking the anticipation for myself, but what's done is done.
It's pretty funny how pathetic you are. You create a screenname called PotterHater and you end your list of spoilers (that no Harry Potter fan will actually read) with the sentence "Now go outside and play ya hosers," as if those who want to read the book are hermetic nerds who spend all their time reading (god forbid). When in actuality you have spent more energy than most people, posting on every Harry Potter thread you can find, trying to prove that you are right. So let's say you are right and these are the spoilers from the book. Who gives a s**t? Do you expect people to read the book, come back to this thread and say, "PotterHater was right! Wow, he's a pretty cool guy"? Everyone who is posting these spoilers don't get the big picture. People love Harry Potter and they want to read the book. Just let them enjoy for it god's sake. I've never even read the books or seen the movies, but christ, just leave them alone.
Wow - I feel like that guy in the bar in Star Wars who offers Obi-Wan some death sticks and Obi waves his hand using his Jedi mind trick telling him he should "go home and rethink his life." You're absolutely right - I should have spent my time more productively. Maybe I'll go find some good political diggs and add some lame comments that don't stir up any controversy. Then again, maybe I'm 14 and don't have anything better to do than piss off people - either way, no.
carbonfree314Jul 19, 2007
Actually, you are the only one.
Closed AccountJul 19, 2007
20 years from now we aren't going to give a s**t about this book? I started early.
Closed AccountJul 19, 2007
Being legal and ethical aren't necessarily the same, just because something is ILLEGAL doesn't make it WRONG. There are plenty of stupid laws around and there are laws in other countries that allow for raped women to be stoned to death.I downloaded the HP7 torrent and have already read the book on my PSP, but I'm still going to buy it since I want the series and other people in my family will want to read it also. I download other books also, if I didn't download them I would just be getting them from the library which is more time consuming and inconvenient. In both cases my downloading hasn't cost anyone money. Possibly the library funding is based on amount of rentals and the funding goes to buying books from authors but I still rent from the library anyway but the amount of books I download wouldn't be possible to rent.
tnatharikJul 20, 2007
If it touches the boundary of the internet, it can never be released.
applcmptrdoodJul 20, 2007
I read the whole thing, cover to cover, because I got sucked in (and I have really good eyesight). I am buying a book, and am considering buying another just to make up for my immorality. I feel bad for breaking the anticipation for myself, but what's done is done.
whiterussianJul 20, 2007
It's pretty funny how pathetic you are. You create a screenname called PotterHater and you end your list of spoilers (that no Harry Potter fan will actually read) with the sentence "Now go outside and play ya hosers," as if those who want to read the book are hermetic nerds who spend all their time reading (god forbid). When in actuality you have spent more energy than most people, posting on every Harry Potter thread you can find, trying to prove that you are right. So let's say you are right and these are the spoilers from the book. Who gives a s**t? Do you expect people to read the book, come back to this thread and say, "PotterHater was right! Wow, he's a pretty cool guy"? Everyone who is posting these spoilers don't get the big picture. People love Harry Potter and they want to read the book. Just let them enjoy for it god's sake. I've never even read the books or seen the movies, but christ, just leave them alone.
potterhaterJul 20, 2007
Wow - I feel like that guy in the bar in Star Wars who offers Obi-Wan some death sticks and Obi waves his hand using his Jedi mind trick telling him he should "go home and rethink his life." You're absolutely right - I should have spent my time more productively. Maybe I'll go find some good political diggs and add some lame comments that don't stir up any controversy. Then again, maybe I'm 14 and don't have anything better to do than piss off people - either way, no.
purpledingoJul 20, 2007
If anything can take down BitTorrent for good, this can. =(