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Posted on ZDNet News: Aug 8, 2007 2:10:00 PM

Reuters Logo Police have arrested a high school student suspected of posting his own translation of the latest Harry Potter book on the Internet weeks ahead of the official French release date, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.

The 16-year old from the Aix-en-Provence region in southern France was taken into custody after a translation of the book's first three chapters appeared on the Web just days after the English-language release in late July, Le Parisien reported.

"The anticounterfeiting police discovered the affair and contacted Ms. Rowling's lawyer," said a spokeswoman for publisher Gallimard, which handles the French editions of the Harry Potter novels.

Police were not immediately available for comment.

The official French-language version of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is scheduled for release on October 26. The translator is still working on the text, the spokeswoman said.

The seventh installment of the Harry Potter saga is the fastest-selling book in history, publishers say, with some 11 million English-language copies sold in the first 24 hours.

Many French book stores are selling the English-language version ahead of the French-language release.

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British Lamb in France
Rubbish - British lamb accounts for over 60% of the French market. In fact the European embargo on British lamb due to foot and mouth disease has caused prices to rise and Rungis (the wholesale food market near Paris) has virtually no stock of lamb.
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AntiCounterfeiting Police?  DarbyOhara | 08/09/07
Oui, but of course!  shraven | 08/09/07
whatever  trev999 | 08/13/07
I am with you on that.  goordman | 08/09/07
Sacre bleu!  designpolice | 08/09/07
And illegally copying copyrighted materials isn't?  Timpraetor | 08/13/07
Rules; what rules?  paul@... | 08/13/07
British Lamb in France  Bathyscaphe | 08/14/07
overwhelming stupidity  shraven | 08/09/07
Open Source is the answer ...  JunkMan1989 | 08/09/07
They should hire him  Silent Observer | 08/09/07
Amusing...  Quantum Rift | 08/09/07
they should hire him!  designpolice | 08/09/07
Perhaps you all should write a book, make a deal  fuzzy2k | 08/09/07
well the thinking in most circles would be  moebius8@... | 08/09/07
They should give him the job  luckyyou1357@... | 08/09/07
They shouldn't arrest him, gives him cred  Boot_Agnostic | 08/09/07
French Teens Punishment for Translating Harry Potter to French.  QA MAN | 08/13/07
outdated information  Rémi Devay | 08/13/07
Useless French  wizardb@... | 08/13/07

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