For example, he claims that Doctorow’s claims about the DMCA aren’t matched by reality, but Pournelle clearly has no idea what he’s talking about and the SFWA’s action to temporarily disband the committee responsible for this nonsense action speaks volumes about whether Pournelle or Doctorow was correct about the take down notices sent to Scrib.

Specifically, Pournelle is a raging hypocrite who is outraged at infringements upon his rights, but cavalier about the infringements upon others,

“The sites in question had thousands of copyrighted works and deliberately made it difficult for the copyright owner even to request that they take them down. SFWA has a couple of volunteers to work on their behalf. Dr. Burt used some software tools to compile a list. The list apparently included some works that the sites had permission to post. When that was called to his attention the objections to those items were removed.

The worst that happened was that for a couple of days some of Corey Doctorow’s work was not available for download from those sites; that is presuming that the site actually took them down at all. ”

Frankly, that’s just outrageous special pleading, especially given the serious nature of a DMCA notice.