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Pirated Harry Potters hit Mumbai
by Elonka at 11:33 am EDT, Jul 19, 2005 |
Pirated copies of the new Harry Potter book have hit the streets of Mumbai (Bombay) barely two days since its worldwide release.
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In its first 24 hours, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince sold 6.9m copies in the US and more than two million in the UK, beating all previous Potter records.
Because of the sheer size of the novel, I'm intrigued to learn more about how the bootleggers produced copies so quickly. Did they get their hands on an electronic version? Was it a simple case of OCR? Or a team of really fast typists? "You do chapter 1, I'll do chapter 2, she'll do chapter 3...". Cheap labor is easy to come by in Bombay, and fluency with English is common, so my guess is the latter. There's probably even a 'factory' for bootlegged books, copying and reproducing -- so it may have been unwise for them to choose something this high profile. ;) If anyone learns more about the process of the India "booklegging," please let me know? |
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RE: Pirated Harry Potters hit Mumbai
by Shannon at 2:07 pm EDT, Jul 19, 2005 |
Elonka wrote: Pirated copies of the new Harry Potter book have hit the streets of Mumbai (Bombay) barely two days since its worldwide release.
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In its first 24 hours, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince sold 6.9m copies in the US and more than two million in the UK, beating all previous Potter records.
Because of the sheer size of the novel, I'm intrigued to learn more about how the bootleggers produced copies so quickly. Did they get their hands on an electronic version? Was it a simple case of OCR? Or a team of really fast typists? "You do chapter 1, I'll do chapter 2, she'll do chapter 3...". Cheap labor is easy to come by in Bombay, and fluency with English is common, so my guess is the latter. There's probably even a 'factory' for bootlegged books, copying and reproducing -- so it may have been unwise for them to choose something this high profile. ;) If anyone learns more about the process of the India "booklegging," please let me know?
I don't think the text needed to be translated as Penguin India has a version available. It could have been a flat out raw scan. Some copiers and presses can now produce books with covers very fast and very cheap and on demand. Something like this sort of set-up would do the trick nicely. This & This are more specific. |
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RE: Pirated Harry Potters hit Mumbai
by Elonka at 5:40 pm EDT, Jul 19, 2005 |
Thanks, that article in The Hindu was exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. :) |
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RE: Pirated Harry Potters hit Mumbai
by grunchley at 12:30 am EDT, Jul 22, 2005 |
Well I could answer your question, but that would ruin the fun you might have in searching for the answer. Blah blah blah, useless drivel, blah blah blah. I'm perfect, I know the answer, solved it all by myself, but oh, I'm still working on my dissertation, so you'll have to wait. Blah blah blah. :) |
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RE: Pirated Harry Potters hit Mumbai
by Elonka at 4:20 pm EDT, Jul 22, 2005 |
grunchley wrote:
Blah blah blah. :)
Perhaps it's time to take a break from working on Kryptos? ;) |
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RE: Pirated Harry Potters hit Mumbai
by grunchley at 6:25 pm EDT, Jul 22, 2005 |
Elonka wrote:
Perhaps it's time to take a break from working on Kryptos? ;)
Well if you make little blocks for each of the last 97 characters, and you put those blocks all in a cup, then shake for a full minute, when you spill the blocks out on a table, you might notice a word or two. Just arrange the remaining blocks to spell out anything you feel fits in the middle, and the solution to K4 is: "I'm an irritating little troll who has no idea what how modern cryptanalysis works." |
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