Yesterday, at midnight, Harry Potter’s newest adventure was on the shelves, available for the masses. Eleven hours later, Harry Potter’s newest adventure was on BitTorrent, available for the masses.
For the cost of $5-$10 for a legal download of the e-book, I’m pretty confident that the organized pirates who committed this act of pure evil would have skipped the 600 page scanning and piecing together process. But people for some reason resist change and technology. I guess that’s the way the microchip crumbles.