Heads up: This post is 19 years old. My thinking may have evolved since then — read it with that in mind.
I’ve just saw a news from Slashdot that someone had taken pictures of every single page of the US version of Harry Potter book 7 and released it on torrents. In fear of what happened to me when book 6 was released, I think I’m going to stop using the internet from now until I this Saturday.