JK Rowling reaches new levels: Spam.

Sep 05, 2006 11:50


First off, poor Rowling. Nobody ever wants their work to be connected to spam. But sure enough, there it is.

"you made me do that!" said ron angrily, sucking his cut thumb. "you wait,
when i'm seventeen -" . fenrir greyback grinned, showing pointed teeth.
blood trickled down his chin and he licked his lips slowly, obscenely. m5

I saw that in the general mailbox at work today, noticing that the subject line had a "$" in place of an "S". Spam dead giveaway. To amuse myself, I often read the little excerpts and (often incoherent) paragraphs they tack onto the end so that its ignored by most spam filtres. But when I saw "Ron" I thought, eh? Then I saw Fenrir, and knew it.

Holy crap. It's Half-blood Prince. What the bloody hell, man?

Am I the only one surprised and angered by this? They've been using incoherent crap for years, and it's worked. Why use legitimate, best-selling copyrighted works. Doesn't this not sound like a bad lawsuit waiting to happen?

In other news. Gaspard Ulliel-as-young-Lecter is still creeping me out in that giggly sexy-boy kind of way. I should be disturbed ... and yet I'm not. Hmmm.

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