The Canadian publisher of the Harry Potter series has filed a court injunction barring anyone from leaking the plot of the latest book after a store accidentally sold copies ahead of the release date.
I cannot concieve of a legal foundation for this. You have 15 people who have paid for a book. Perhaps they got it before the time the publisher would have cared for them to have done so, but that's not ILLEGAL. In this case, I don't even think I can say it's
immoral.
But now we're talking about seeking legal injunctions from people talking on the street? Am I alone here? Doesn't anyone else see how a court granting such an injunction is a gross violation? Admittedly, we're talking about Canada, not the USA, but this strikes me as a wildly inappropriate action for a court, and just as inappropriate for a book distributor to have sought in the first place. This really, really,
REALLY bothers me.
But then, as Jared and I have been discussing this morning, I'm a conservatarian. Or maybe it's a libervative. How about
you?