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A hacker claims to have broken into Bloomsbury’s computers and has posted the end of the new Harry on line in order to “to make reading of the upcoming book useless and boring.” Oh. You make my job here too easy. In fact, I can’t even do it. I can’t possibly go there. It would be lowering myself.
Rowling is to take part in a marathon overnight autograph session in London to celebrate the publication of the final book.
The author will read from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at the Natural History Museum at midnight on 21 July.
She will then meet 1,700 fans and sign their copies of the book in a session that is expected to last until dawn.
The fans will be chosen in a ballot.
The luckiest fans will be drowned in a vat of chocolate and will be mounted, a chocolate statue frozen in a horrified death pose, on Rowling’s mantel. Easter bunnies will be arranged around this one lucky individual so it appears they are devouring him or her alive.
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June 24th, 2007 at 7:47 am
The Harry Potter hoax, or manipulating the mass media for fun and for profit.
Harry Potter book has not been stolen.
It is an homebrew experiment of a well known military tactic named Psychological Operation (PSYOP), applied to Information Warfare.
In less than 48 hours a fake news has realized 200 newspaper publication (including BBC, CNN, REUTERS) , 10.000+ blogs, many TV reportage, from the India to Southamerica.
PSYOPs can be summarized as: the creation of fake information, a partial description or censorship applied to mass media.
PSYOPs are widely used by non-democratic governments in different countries around the world and by big political-economical lobbies in western countries.
Our goal was to provide to the world citizen a proof of the vulnerability of today information society and let them think seriously about that.