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uber desi dot com » Blog Archive » FOB Tales: Playing spoiler — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:23:24 +0000

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By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:56:43 +0000

Yeah, I agree the source counts! And you know what, they posted on the Notice board of Podar that ‘Kajol is the killer in Gupt!’ They are still tracking the guy who did that!

Oh, yeah and your friend owes you more than a movie!

By: Patrix

Patrix — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:40:29 +0000

Luther, hmmmm…interesting.

Abhishek, Given how much information is out there on the web and the rumor factor being so high, you can no longer trust anything you read unless you are sure about its source. That was an interesting strategy by producers of Kaante. I remember the identity of the killer in Gupt being revealed similarly. My friend Shelby screamed out loud – Kajol is the killer – in the theater just before movie started. I’m sure if people wished that would have been his last movie or rather day on earth.

By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:49:50 +0000

Hey Patrix! This is a wonderful way of “virally” spreading the word on the web! I am sure even if the book were stolen and the manuscript was hacked, and let’s assume for one moment that all that the man has posted is true, there can be a few harry potter fans or the publishers themselves who can spread other information in the name of spoilers and confuse the fans! I think that’s what they did with the Indian rip off of reservoir dogs when an SMS was circulated that Lucky Ali was the killer. The producers promnptly spread the word that Suanju baba, Suniel Shetty, Amit(ji) was the killer…

Of course, we are talking about a different scale altogether… but, this was bound to happen, don’t you think!

By: Luther Blisset

Luther Blisset — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:49:16 +0000

The Harry Potter hoax, or manipulating the mass media for fun and for profit.

Harry Potter book has not been stolen.
It is an homebrew experiment of a well known military tactic named Psychological Operation (PSYOP), applied to Information Warfare.

In less than 48 hours a fake news has realized 200 newspaper publication (including BBC, CNN, REUTERS) , 10.000+ blogs, many TV reportage, from the India to Southamerica.

PSYOPs can be summarized as: the creation of fake information, a partial description or censorship applied to mass media.

PSYOPs are widely used by non-democratic governments in different countries around the world and by big political-economical lobbies in western countries.

Our goal was to provide to the world citizen a proof of the vulnerability of today information society and let them think seriously about that

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.harry-potter/browse_thread/thread/aa25070e7c0959f8/9a04b6779b5a0c2f