Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Harry Potter book leaks before release


At a point when Harry Potter is the topic of the conversation virtually everywhere, a bothering news surfaces about an illicit release of the book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, on the internet. The author of this blog says he found the book on the pirate bay. The photos of the book are all fingers and thumbs, literally. If I were the an Onion editor, this would be my story:

The underworld mafia release an illicit version of the book on the internet. The photos were taken by a camera screwed to a chewing gum that was chewed for the whole time the book was photographed.

The author J. K. Rowling and the publisher are claiming a loss of $90 trillions. They said this number was calculated based on the losses purportedly incurred earlier by software companies such as Microsoft, Oracle etc and music companies such as Sony, BMG etc due to the piracy of their proprietary material. The far-reaching effects of this economic calamity will be felt all over the world. Countries will be without electricity, heat, water, spicy food and even underwears for more than a decade. The destruction caused will likely bring the US back under the British rule, make superbowl a game of cricket, disturb the peace in the middle east and unite India and Pakistan.

Such are the effects of piracy. Such.

2 comments:

Karthik Sriram said...

LOL good one!

But anyways pre-orders alone make this a best seller of perhaps the next two years!!

LKS

oLi said...

In my lifetime, I've never seen such a craze for a book release. This is a definite bestseller at least for the next two years until another HP comes out. No other book can beat the record...

I actually felt sad about the piracy issue more because the suspense was broken prematurely.

 
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