IP Chairman John Kennedy says the BitTorrent tracker site now hurting the “publishing industry” in addition to record labels, movie, studios, etc.
With all the latest fallout from the new Harry Potter book being leaked on BitTorrent, it comes as no surprise that the IFPI, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, would try to seize the moment and use it to further their own personal agenda.
After previously having tried to link them to far right groups, and even perhaps pedophilia, it seems that in the latest twist of the ongoing Harry Potter leak saga, the IFPI is trying to get young Harry Potter fans and the publishing industry on board in its campaign against the “evil” Swedish BitTorrent tracker site Pirate Bay.
The IFPI tries to play up the Pirate Bay’s so-called involvement in the Harry Potter leak, a serious charge if there ever was one considering how much time and effort goes into keeping the books top secret prior to sale, by posting an announcement on its site titled “The Pirate Bay involved in Harry Potter Leak.” Involved? It makes it sound as though they were actually in on the caper and that the carpet in the leaked photos matches the kind they have in the Pirate Bay’s offices (is there one?).
The article continues:
The Pirate Bay, an international engine of illegal file-sharing, is accused of facilitating the distribution of pre-release copies of the latest Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, in a move that has been criticised by publishers Bloomsbury. Author J.K. Rowling has previously asked people to respect her embargos and described those who ruin others enjoyment as “sad individuals.”
Okay, so here we go “facilitation of distribution” is very different from “involved in Harry Potter leak” You have to love how they attempt to now bring the wrath of millions of disappointed Harry Potter fans to bear on the Pirate Bay.
Considering that the leaked images were available on a number of BitTorrent tracker sites why did the IFPI choose to target the Pirate Bay? Well, Peter Brokep over at the Pirate Bay asked the very same question.
“Well, first of all, it’s kinda interesting that they choose 1 site out of maybe thousands that help distribute the content,” he said on Skype. “Then they choose one that actually has no content that is copyrighted and they decide to falsely accuse us of being part of the leak (it’s a quite serious accusation)?”
Well John Kennedy, chairman and chief executive of IFPI, seems to reply to this question by writing that “The Pirate Bay has a long history of facilitating the distribution of pirated music on the internet, harming artists, composers and record producers.It would appear that the publishing industry is now also being hurt by the operators of The Pirate Bay who show no respect for creativity or intellectual property rights.”
They say a man can be measured by his words and it’s obvious this is an attempt to rile people up against the Pirate Bay despite the fact that they continue to do what they always have done and don’t actually host any copyrighted content.
There’s is a sort of a happy ending to the story, for as Brokep writes:
But, on a funny note – I got an email from a new user! He didn’t know about the site, but he reads IFPIs press releases.. so he wanted the book and came to our site.
So thanks IFPI.. 
You gotta love it.
Also, as I finished this article it seems as though the IFPI decided to change the title of the article, no doubt realizing how slanderous it sounded. The new title is now “Harry Potter leaks on Pirate Bay.” Sounds like a Digg submission if I’ve ever heard of one.
Too funny.
By the way, as you can see below, the Pirate Bay has a new logo up in honor of the Harry Potter leak. The hands apparently belong to Brokep.
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Apparently they might be able to track the person who took every single shoot of the book using some metadata :
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/07/19/harry_potter_photole.html
Yet they are trying to take involve tpb into this instead of trying to find the guy (not that I think he deserve to be tracked).
O.K. what exactly was leaked? The text of the whole book? The only way for this to be worth downloading would be if it were an audio book. With a book one has to print out the whole text (unless you plan on reading off the screen which most people wouldn’t). The cost of printing would far exceed that of buying the book. (If this were true of music there would be no problem of copyright infringement either). So what was leaked? The ending? Illustrations? People are still going to want to buy the book. This is more like publicity than “leaking.”
Pictures of each page of the entire book. So you could browse the pictures to read it.
Gotta give the media mafia credit….if they cannot get them for something like “child porn” then they go after them for having releases of a new harry potter book…..what a bunch of clowns!
That Boing article about the camera type and meta data almost makes it sound like Canon wants to help in trying to track the photographer down! Maybe it’s just an employee at Canon bragging about what they can do and not what the company as a whole thinks but wow..
They will lose sales if their cameras are seen as a security leak and even more importantly folks who want to share like that in the future will learn to strip metadata from their files. They could have batch-stripped all of the images of that book in a few minutes with a free program like jstrip. Hopefully there are no other serial numbers elsewhere in the file.
This isn’t even about something illegal it’s basic privacy rights here.
@Boomer
I know isnt that Boing article about Canon cameras spooky?
Well some retard went to our CBC (Canadian broadcasting Corporation) and told them about the harry potter book leak and it was on the head lines they even showed him type the TPB address and they showed the TPB logo. I feel like killing that 4 eyed chineese nerd/retard.
Leaking books is bullshit. If youre too cheap to buy a new book that you want to read and support the hard work of the aurthor then youre truely a low life. Take a long look in the mirror and ask youself who is really the bad guy. The person who wants to protect their hard work and you the person who thinks youre so special you shouldnt have to pay for something you want. God smoetimes I hate P2P brats.
@Mels
Is it really a book if its just pictures? My point exactly.
People may grab it to see what happens perhaps but ultimtaely I think people who actually READ will want the real deal in their hands.
I dont know anybody who’s ever read a book on a monitor.
Do any of you?
I’ve read one book that was done like Harry Potter jpg photos of its pages except there was no hand they used something else to hold the pages down. It was fine and I got to read the book when it wasn’t available to me in another way. I’ve read books at Google and tech manuals in Adobe or CHM formats networking html page creation and a few periodicals in those formats too.
I’m a sad case I rarely read hard books now or I start to read but don’t finish. I’m way in front of the screen always like Weird Al is these days except I’m Furry and nerdy..