Harry Potter publisher gets subpoena to identify pirate

Scholastic Corp., publisher of the new “Harry Potter” book, obtained a subpoena to learn the identity of a user who allegedly posted copies of the final sequel, scheduled for release Saturday, on a California website.

Scholastic said in a court filing Monday that “materials hosted on Photobucket.com’s system” contain materials that infringe copyrights owned by Scholastic and J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books. Photobucket.com, a News Corp. unit, is a website for sharing photos and videos on social networks such as MySpace.

I might have to disconnect from the Internet until Saturday to avoid seeing the spoiler of book seven’s ending.