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Phoenix666 [soylentnews.org] writes:

GCHQ, the UK's surveillance agency, intervened to help prevent the sixth Harry Potter instalment leaking online [bbc.com], the book's publisher has said.

Bloomsbury's Nigel Newton said GCHQ contacted him in 2005 after it apparently discovered an early copy of The Half Blood-Prince on the internet.

However, after a page was read to an editor, it was determined to be fake.

A spokesperson for GCHQ told the Sunday Times [thesundaytimes.co.uk]: "We don't comment on our defence against the dark arts."

GCHQ, based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, is a secret intelligence agency which monitors electronic communication to prevent terrorism and tackle serious and organised crime.

Your tax dollars (or pounds) hard at work.

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