We thought we’d enter the Harry Potter discussion from a new angle – a quantitative look at the spoiler content’s reach and insights into the types of sites who are lifting and publishing the book content.

Yesterday we added the web page that includes excerpts from the unreleased novel Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Attributor’s monitoring platform immediately found 312 separate reuses of the spoiler page across the Web.

The top 3 sites hosting the re-used content are

1. livejournal.com
2. groups.google.com
3. twoj.net

With Attributor, instead of having to manually search and sort through a haystack of tertiary matches, we provide specific citations where your content are being re-used and enables you to act appropriately — by issuing a licensing request, or sending automatic DMCA takedown notices. We also enable more innovative approaches such as allowing a teaser portion of your content to be posted freely as long as the reuser links back to your site or includes one of your widgets to sell the full version.

We will update the blog over the next few days with the latest numbers and analysis of the sites that are re-using the content. Watch this space and let us know what you want to find out.