Major publisher fails to protect ebooks, allowing free download.

1 points by anony-mice ↗ HN
Recently, while looking up book reviews, I inadvertently discovered that a major publisher had failed to secure some of their ebooks from being downloaded for free.

Most of the chapter pdf links are indexed by Google, and those that are not, can be easily found because of the simple name pattern of the files.

I've contacted someone from the company, but received no response and after checking, the problem hasn't been fixed.

This is a company that in the past has, to my knowledge, taken action against illegal ebook sharers, a problem decidedly harder to fix/handle than say, aspects that fall under their direct control, such as the security of their own products.

Obviously I'm not naming them publicly because I don't want to risk getting sued, but how would you handle this, HN?

I'm thinking about just letting it go.

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Post in on pastebin, claim anonymous hacked them. Just kidding. Email them again in a week, if there's no reply blog about it.