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Let me get this straight: A random Google Code Project is illegally hosting an e-book. Author of e-book somehow finds out and creates a nasty bug report demanding a take down?

Wouldn't filing a DMCA in this scenario do the trick? Forgive me, I'm just having a hard time finding this HN newsworthy.

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Didn't you read the part where he links to a blog post, encouraging people to steal his book?

He was only objecting to the "on google code, where it makes the top 4 search results when you search for my f*ing book"

I suspect he is not the type of copyright holder who enjoys the protection afforded to him by DMCA laws. He just doesn't want to be pissed on his face, please piss on his back only, see?

Well, to be fair, he only did that as a response to the guy publishing his book on google code. I don't think there would be a post about it otherwise.

edit: didn't see the date of the post. Thought the "yesterday" in question was actually a twitter post from yesterday.

The post is 3 years old. The issue was created today.

The goal isn't to get it taken down, it's getting some publicity. So writing a witty bug report and submitting it to HN isn't surprising at all.

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