I'm very clear that every instance of any of the books I wrote for O'Reilly, or anything from any of the Perl CDs, being present on the web for public consumption, is piracy.

I'm also of the opinion (which I know isn't shared by everyone) that the presence of electronic copies of these O'Reilly books does indeed damage the marketability of the books, because there are people who would not buy the book if they didn't have to, and would have otherwise, and the books do not need any more publicity than they've already gotten.

Therefore, as a courtesy to me, as an author with something at stake, I kindly request that my requests for takedown be acted upon with haste, and not waiting for a formal sequence of events involving the publisher and lawyers and served papers. It seems common sense.

The Monastery has no "common carrier" protection, nor would fit the safe harboring provisions of the DMCA. I'm pretty sure that based on past actions taken here, it would be silly to assume that the operators of the Monastery would be held harmless if continued copyright violations show up.

Given that, swift action, and editing to minimize damage, seem the only logical course.