Epilogue Wank, Twilight Style
Mucho gracias to the folks over on wank_report. AND A SPOILER WARNING WITH EXTRA SPARKLES FOR TWILIGHT FANS. I suggest Twilight fans who actually care that much about being spoiled avoid this post like the plague.


With the upcoming release of Breaking Dawn, the final installment of the Twilight series that has fans breaking out in hives for its August 2nd release, possible spoilers have begun to be leaked all over the net (which also concerns an epilogue- is anyone else getting deja vu or is it just me?). Not only that, but Stephenie Meyer was unable to contain her bursting excitement and has leaked a very, very special spoiler. CUE SHIPPING WANK FROM STAGE RIGHT! Some people are pleased. Others are not pleased, not only with Meyer but the tone of the article.

ETA2: The Yahoo!Answers thread was deleted, but I was able to cap the first page of comments from the tab I had opened. [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11]

ETA: Fixed the tag on the last link. Sorry, folks.
ETA3: A support request was entered by someone claiming to be from a law firm, claiming to represent the publishing group with a pretty much standard letter that has been going around like a strain of herpes to people leaking the book or even discussing spoilers (julian_black explains exactly why here). I don't think intellectual property laws work that way.


July 28, 2008

BY E-MAIL:

Re: BREAKING DAWN by Stephenie Meyer (the “Intellectual Property”) –
Unauthorized Posting

Dear Site Administrator:

I am authorized to act on behalf of the author, Stephenie Meyer, the owner of copyright in the Intellectual Property, and Hachette Book Group USA, Inc., the exclusive US publisher of the Intellectual Property (collectively, the "IP Owner"). I have a good faith belief that the individual who posted the material on the site listed below may have had unauthorized access, directly or indirectly, to the Intellectual Property which has not yet been published and is embargoed until August 2, 2008. Accordingly, we hereby request that you please remove and/or disable access to the materials located on your website at:

http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1170411.html#cutid1


http://www.journalfen.net/community/wank_report/518.html?page=42comments


Sincerely,

s/RR



Other posts concerning the leaks can be found here and a twilight_news (thanks to hooloovoo_too). Possible confirmation of some of the spoilers has also sparked more wank over here.

There's some more fun over at ontd (the macros start on page 2). The OP itself only concerns the movie, but that doesn't stop people from wanking over the spoilers.

ETA4: system is love.


As previously pointed out, no material from this author was posted on our site; the breaking of the embargo on this book did not take place on this site. I will not prevent our users from discussing what had been posted elsewhere or from posting links to other sites where the information was originally disclosed.

Besides which, is the fact that we did not enter into an embargo agreement regarding this book.

I'm sympathetic to your client's plight and to the possible economic repercussions of someone having leaked contents of your client's material before it was supposed to have been available.

However, I am not pleased by the drive-by intimidation tactic intended to make us believe we had any sort of legal obligation to remove specific posts and content from our site. The request was obviously ill-informed, as well, since the only content on this site relating to your client's book is discussion of elements of the book that were posted elsewhere. Our site does not have the most flattering discussion with regard to your client's material, but such is the way with opinions, and I will not interfere with my users' rights to express them.

And there's now been blurry confirmation on spoilers (thanks to miraba).

ETA5: Ok, guys, lay off the Mormons or I'm going to have to ask you to get out of the pool. I really, really, REALLY hate to quote mcity but plz no Mormon bashing. Let's have some class.

ETA6: SMeyer allegedly wrote a parody version of Breaking Dawn according to this EW article (thanks to greenconverses).