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dangermousieI am so annoyed at the mighty JKR right now, I am tempted not to buy HPVI. First, there is a court order in Canada barring people who bought books early (accidentally) from reading them. Excuse Me?!
Now, a website I go to for spoilers deleted them all saying they got a cease and desist. The letter itself seems to promote the interests of poor widdle kiddies everywhere. WHATEVER. OMG, a child found spoilers incidentally. What were they doing on a heavily marked spoiler site anyway? And you know, if coming across a spoiler for a book is the worst that ever happens, my heart isn't going to be bleeding for you.
It might amaze you to know, JKR, that your book is not the Bible, the Torah, Quran or any other holy book. The world does not revolve around it, nor will it come to an end if someone reads it days early. It's a rather derivative, entertainingly written children's book. No more, no less. Most of us out in the world would continue on happily existing if Harry Potter dissapeared tomorrow.
By protecting it the way a religious fanatic protects his holy text from the hands of the unbelievers, you are accomplishing nothing except an exhibition of your own sense of self-importance. It's Harry Freaking Potter, not the secrets of a nuclear bomb.
Barring people from reading? An injunction against it? Really. Leaving aside the issue of how very Orwellian and Farenheit 451 this is (making me glad not to live in Canada, if that's the kind of law they have), how on earth do you enforce it? Do you have a Harry Potter Death Squad?
Ugh.
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phylogenetics has a lovely rant re HP spoilers here. Better than mine!
Now, a website I go to for spoilers deleted them all saying they got a cease and desist. The letter itself seems to promote the interests of poor widdle kiddies everywhere. WHATEVER. OMG, a child found spoilers incidentally. What were they doing on a heavily marked spoiler site anyway? And you know, if coming across a spoiler for a book is the worst that ever happens, my heart isn't going to be bleeding for you.
It might amaze you to know, JKR, that your book is not the Bible, the Torah, Quran or any other holy book. The world does not revolve around it, nor will it come to an end if someone reads it days early. It's a rather derivative, entertainingly written children's book. No more, no less. Most of us out in the world would continue on happily existing if Harry Potter dissapeared tomorrow.
By protecting it the way a religious fanatic protects his holy text from the hands of the unbelievers, you are accomplishing nothing except an exhibition of your own sense of self-importance. It's Harry Freaking Potter, not the secrets of a nuclear bomb.
Barring people from reading? An injunction against it? Really. Leaving aside the issue of how very Orwellian and Farenheit 451 this is (making me glad not to live in Canada, if that's the kind of law they have), how on earth do you enforce it? Do you have a Harry Potter Death Squad?
Ugh.
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phylogenetics has a lovely rant re HP spoilers here. Better than mine!
