Now they are snapping up copies of "A Memory of Light" to see if the climax can live up to decades of expectations.
Fans of the Mass Effect series will likely be eager to snap up copies of the latest game come next year around this time.
In Griffith, a town near Narrandera, militant farmers burned piled-up copies of the water-use plan, which would affect an area of 2m people that provides about 40% of the output from Australia's farms.
And because the whole system can store so much information, back-up copies of everything in it can be made internally in more than one brick, meaning that such a failure destroys no data.
With marked-up copies of Verizon's agreement, Cablevision attorneys pointed out areas they found weak: Verizon's schedule to build out service in the entire town, its obligation to restore damaged municipal property and clauses excusing Verizon from penalties in case of unusual events.
Working with Yale University neurologist Stephen Strittmatter, who cloned the Nogo gene, Biogen Idec has created a counterinsurgency protein that acts as a sponge to soak up copies of Nogo and other growth-blocking proteins in the spinal cord before they can bind to the receptor.
Having grown up on the White City estate in the shadow of BBC Television Centre in west London, and working for the corporation as a messenger, Mr George went on to hang around its offices, keeping notes of telephone numbers and picking up copies of the staff magazine, Ariel, the prosecution said.
Google has helped with the production of the board by buying up the copies of the game.
Some tired parents and grumpy kids complained the events deteriorated into shoving matches as the crowds clamoured to be among the first to snap up their copies.
When it was all about printing up 300 copies of an obscure journal and making sure that they got to the only 300 people in the world interested in the subject there was a possible argument in favour of the model.
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The results are broken up into physical copies purchased and digital downloads, and the two lists tell very different stories.
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At the time, the council stocked up on printed copies of the trilogy, buying 200 extra copies of each book.
While gamers in South Korea are lining up to get copies of the new title, StarCraft II could be a game changer in the country's professional circuit, Fields said.
Comcast has agreed to buy up to 5 million copies of Foundation for its set-tops.
The gallery can then hold its customers liable if copies show up somewhere they should not be.
While manipulating the clip, several subset copies took up even more space.
"You can have a master copy of PC Cillin that makes sure all your copies are up to date just by clicking on one, " says Mr Craig from Trend Micro.
Since its release last October, readers have snapped up some 700, 000 copies of her guide.
Now one of the first copies will be up for grabs at London bookseller, Peter Harrington.
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It plans to offer free generics in public hospitals, which would drive up sales of very cheap copies.
The dispute began after the Warner Bros parent company, AOL Time Warner, put up the price of DVD copies to rental dealers.
Copies now pop up on beaches, in trading rooms, on trains indeed everywhere but doctors' waiting rooms, from which, one can only assume, they disappear.
After just five days, EA ended up selling 4.5 million copies of the game worldwide.
Copies changed hands for up to 20 times the original sale price.
Situation A: PhD student A copies a paragraph leading up to one of his hypotheses from a working paper by someone else he found on the web, without citation.
While these efforts might add up to just a few extra copies in any individual store, collectively, it can be the difference between a title turning a profit or not.
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The key's simplicity has led to wide spread piracy - a quick web search brings up tens of unofficial sellers pedalling cheap copies.
The one thing that I am not planning to do is give copies of "Start-Up Nation" to my children until they graduate from college and have left the house.
As commentators rightly point out, many of the videos today depict stripped-down Developer Editions of Windows 8, which lack many of the start-up items and services in actual shipping copies of Windows.
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