Limiting Internet Usage before Harry Potter release in fear of Spoilers

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.

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