To all the downvoters: Guess what, I live in Eastern Europe, so I can't go to the local bookstore to flip through books. English language books (most good stuff written today) doesn't get imported at all. Books that are popular in the US are translated (terrible for technical books) about 5-10 years after their original release date. So guess what, I download the books, look at them, and order the good ones (about 5 every few months) from Amazon and Alibris.
I think the downvotes may have something to do with the fact that you gave a bunch of information that make it very easy for others to download the book as well. Effectively you have probably cost the author a bunch of potential sales.
That's a pretty good justification for your grabbing a pirated copy, but that doesn't have much bearing on whether your comment was valuable. A downvote for your original comment is (I hope) a judgement about the value of your comment, not about your moral character.
The intended purpose of my comment was to highlight the following anecdote: it seems that books are pirated the day they come out, which is already pretty usual for movies and software, but, to my knowledge, not for books. Cheers!
Here in India, I can only purchase a few selected O'Reilly titles, for which I have to travel across the city. Apress, Wrox, Packt are all available somewhere, but I still haven't found an accessible (read: near a Metro line) retail outlet that keeps those books.
