![]() ![]() I mean, there already were pirated copies of these ebooks available, if you know where to look. ![]() I’m also surprised that someone would pirate these ebooks at all, given the widely known DRM buried inside. In fact, I believe it was HP7 that was pirated before the print edition officially shipped. I recall that the later additions to the Harry Potter series were pirated within a day of hitting the bookstore shelves. That means that the DRM embedded in the Epub is more subtle than I thought.įrankly, I’m surprised this took this long. This tells me that the file names might be another watermark added by Booxtream. I found the serial numbers in the title elements of the images, right where Booxtream put them.Īnd BTW, now that I have a second copy of HP1, I can see that the files inside that Epub have different file names than in the Epub I bought. ![]() He didn’t do anything to remove the digital watermarks I reported on yesterday. All he did was remove the warning statement from the copyright page. Now, I’m not being rude in calling the pirate stupid he didn’t put all that much effort into anonymizing the Epubs before he pirated them. I looked them over, and they are clearly not one of the earlier sets of pirated ebooks. One not terribly intelligent pirate uploaded a complete set of the Pottermore ebooks, in Epub, last night. That’s how long it took for the first pirated copies of the official Pottermore Harry Potter ebooks to show up on a pirate site.Ī reader tipped me to the story this afternoon. Pottermore eBooks Already Showing up on Torrentsįorty-two hours. ![]()
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