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July 17th, 2007

Harry Potter on the Torrents proves once more: Torrents are dens of thieves

Posted by Russell Shaw @ 9:07 am

Categories: Predictions and Observations, Security

Tags: Den, Russell Shaw

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I’ve long raged against the Torrents. Bit Torrent, all of them.

Unexcelled distribution mechanism but at heart, dens of thieves that take away income from musicians. Some poor, some rich, but all who are entitled to profit from their creativity.

Speaking of rich, we won’t be holding any benefits for Harry Potter author and creator J.K. Rowling soon.

Still, somehow and some way, the Torrents have been raging with purloined scans from the forthcoming (later this week) Harry Potter book, “Harry Potter and the Dealthly Hollows.”

Some scans like the one at the top of this post, are posted here.

As a copyright holder myself, I am not happy about this.

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Russell Shaw is an enterprise computing journalist, analyst and author based in Portland, Oregon. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.

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Ever hear of a Breath of Fresh Air
Something that is obscure just to show the blogger's opinion on other topics such as piracy. Obviously because pirates use Torrent as a distribution method, we should burn it. Also because people us... (Read the rest)
Posted by: nucrash Posted on: 07/18/07 You are currently: a Guest | | Terms of Use
Don't forget to add  Yagotta B. Kidding | 07/17/07
Very true-multiple culprits involved  DonRupertBitByte | 07/17/07
Talking points from CAIR  frgough | 07/17/07
I will gladly make that call  nucrash | 07/17/07
Two wrongs do not make a right!  ShadeTree | 07/17/07
Never said I was  nucrash | 07/17/07
Pillows don't kill people  Yagotta B. Kidding | 07/17/07
Point of order  frgough | 07/17/07
How to hurt torrents big time.  osreinstall | 07/17/07
What's the point?  Letophoro | 07/17/07
Many Torrents are legal  The-Bytemaster | 07/17/07
Harry Potter in Libraries proves once more: Libraries are dens of thieves  AnonymousBugMeNotUser | 07/17/07
Damn those VCRs  nucrash | 07/17/07
Would it be evil of me to...  TrPrince | 07/17/07
Yes  nucrash | 07/17/07
I'm sorry!!!  TrPrince | 07/17/07
Just pay $25,000  nucrash | 07/17/07
I use the torrents and am not a thief!  devlin_X | 07/17/07
What does this post have to do with Telephony?  aep528 | 07/17/07
Ever hear of a Breath of Fresh Air  nucrash | 07/18/07

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