Harsh J

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Disturbance in force

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Just before a few hours days to the release of the overhyped ‘greatest’ book in history of jupiter earth.

Yeah right, even my blog needed a Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows spoiler news post.

Well, if you are up to date on the leak, here’s a bit of what am talking about:

The bloke who snapped off a few pictures of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and showed it off on the internet is likely to be identified because investigators can make his pictures talk.

This week the anonymous bloke or blokette took pictures of the book and posted them on the world wide wibble including the last chapter.

According to the Times, investigators have scryed into the pictures and are fairly certain they can nab the bloke wot did it. The method did not involve the sacrifice of any goats or chickens either.

Each of the photographs has metadata built into each photo. Canon says that the pics were snapped with one of its cameras. In fact it says it was a Canon Rebel 350D and the model is three years old.

This means that if the owner had the camera serviced at least once then they will have his or her name and address.

However, if the pirate didn’t have it serviced, Canon’s UK head office said it was possible to find out which country the camera was sold in and in turn the warranty.

The owner is probably from the US or Canadian because the camera was not sold anywhere else. Publisher Bloomsbury has promised to send every legal demon it knows at the offender.

Inq via Giz

Now why do I get a bad feeling that people who think they made a damn good gadget purchase 3 years ago will regret their decision?

Here’s what they’d probably get soon:
Attn: U r a prim suspct in takin pix of HP:TDH, plz srrndr fer interrgtn. kthxbai.
Damn lolcat, doesn’t leave my mind.

Written by Harsh

July 20th, 2007 at 9:51 pm

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3 Responses to 'Disturbance in force'

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  1. Yea, the bozo left the EXIF data intact. The camera’s serial number was there :D

    Oh well, these new kids trying their hand at piracy :|

    Preshit

    21 Jul 07 at 11:34 am

  2. A lolcat did all this!

    Wengistein

    21 Jul 07 at 2:50 pm

  3. Well i won’t be surprised is the “pirate” turns out to be a 10yr old kid. How will they take legal action against an underage? :P

    Beta3

    21 Jul 07 at 9:56 pm

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