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Saturday, July 21, 2007

Harry Potter Leak, perp leaves digital trail

I've noted in an earlier post that the latest episode of Harry Potter has been leaked on the net 4 days prior to the official release date. The perpetrator has painstakingly photographed each of the 700 or so pages of the volume. Some pictures have bits of his/her hands, a table top and a carpet.

The legal team representing the publisher though are not taking things lying down. The crook might just have joined the hall of shame alongside dumb thieves who leave driver's licenses and other forms of identification at the scene of the crime. he/she didn't bother to strip the EXIF data from the photographs and that information might just lead the investigators to his/her doorstep, provided canon divulges the information on who owns the camera with the specific serial number!

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