>Shit, I don't even think the people who screamed "Snape killed Dumbledore" at lines for book 6 based on leaked copies that hit before the street date got in any trouble.

How could anyone possibly get in trouble for something that isn't a crime?

That’s a question for someone who tattled about Microsoft and moaned about the people punished for book piracy.

Pirating a leaked book before launch and trying to dampen enthusiasm is basically as bad as you can get without actually competing. Even in that extreme case, no one was punished.

Nor should they have been but it sort of makes the moral argument for “Harry Potter shouldn’t be on kaggle” much weaker.