CADTutor ripped off in torrent

[David]

I've just been tipped off by one of the CADTutor forum members that the CADTutor tutorials have popped up as pdf e-books for free download. Basically, someone has systematically taken all my content, converted it to pdf and then made it available as a free download from a torrent site. For example, see this page (http://www.mininova.org/det/1121447).

I'm currently investigating.

[James]

Not nice at all, but not sure what you can do about it?

[David]

Well, I've just reported this to the MiniNova site admin. I must admit, I'm not confident. the two "e-books" were uploaded yesterday and already nearly 100 people have downloaded them as the table below indicates.

21

"Seeds" are completed downloads and "Leechers" are downloads in progress. :angry:

[Tom]

The swine!

An Irish magazine company did something similar to me (ie just putting the material on their website) years ago but a letter stopped them. I've been expecting something similar with the Garden History CD but it has not happened - YET.
The only measure I can think of is to look up some medieval descriptions of hell (life in boiling oil while being endlessly consumed by maggots etc) and find a way of letting the perpetrators know about what they can expect.
I guess you are more at risk than me, because garden historians are not a nerdy crowd. Most of them are pretty challenged by opening a file on a CD if the autorun does not work on their machines!