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And So It Begins - Harry Potter 7 and the Internet (Spoiler Free)

Posted on July 19, 2007
Filed Under Daily Links, Personal Posts |

(Spoiler Free Post)

So that didn’t take long. I’m talking about Harry Potter and the Deathly Shadows being available on the internet to anyone who wants it. A sign that is indicative of how the internet is pretty much the perfect system for replicating something, for distributing something, and how broken DRM is.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, digitzed
Harry Potter, digitised in 16 colours at a server near you.

It also illustrates the collary that Tom Reynolds once pointed out - that the internet will route round any obstruction. Al Gore The Original designers probably meant physical problems (eg a nuclear war) but it’s proved very adept at getting round other obstructions.

So on that DRM point? It doesn’t matter how good your system is ($20 million of system from the publishers I believe), it doesn’t matter what you put in place - if you have a system that can be read/listened/watched by the human senses, it just needs one smart person to get past the security - and then everyone has it. I can’t help but giggle - the almost anonymous capability of bittorrent came about because of the ability of Napster mk 1 et al .

And the novel itself? Either this is one of the most painstaking fakes I’ve ever seen, or it’s the real deal. Before I read that the publishers were firing out takedown notices to people taking about the torrent. Seesh, shoot the umpteenth messenger that a Change is Gonna Come - or is Sam Cooke’s estate going to get me for that phrase?. I’ll leave comments till over the weekend, but all I will safely say is I nailed the contents of “Chapter 33″ (and a few others) in my predictions.

For now, if you’re looking to make it to Saturday… Constant Vigilance!

Comments

One Response to “And So It Begins - Harry Potter 7 and the Internet (Spoiler Free)”

  1. Gustaf Erikson on July 19th, 2007 15:09

    I can’t believe they’re sending takedown notices to sites discussing the release. Beyond lame.

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