You can see Ridley Scott’s new film American Gangster, staring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe, right now.  No, it won’t be released in US theaters until next month.  No, it’s not a trailer, and it’s not a trick.  

It’s the top download over at The Pirate Bay.  Is this safe?  Should you do it?  What else is over at Pirate Bay?

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Several BitTorrent sites claim to have  Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows online.  Some are offering juicy tidbits; others, the entire book (like PirateBay). 

Someone has taken the time to take photos of each and every page, posting images of the text online - along with a part of his hand …. Someone else has taken the time to read the images, and then type them out, in a version also available at PirateBay.   There’s a veritable smorgesborg of Deathly Hallows at PirateBay today. 

Spoilers can be found at Zendrul (synopsis) and Insecure while SpoilerBoy’s site has been taken down.   Add to this that the spoilers don’t agree - what happened to Ron, for example, differs from site to site.  Some of this stuff is fake. 

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