I can understand if Scholastic is a bit upset about the photographs of the last Harry Potter book ending up on BitTorrent. I was even a bit upset, and I hope they find who did it and prosecute the hell out of them! In addition to shutting down the material on the BitTorrent site, though, they are also trying to silence anybody who blogged or reported the story, even if they did not post a direct link to where the book can be found. TechCrunch has a story there, I'm sure we'll be seeing more of these popping up across the internet in the next few days.
But really this is just a bullying (albeit very polite bullying) tactic by the publisher to try to stop word spreading that the book, like almost all popular media today, is available free on BitTorrent for those who choose to steal it. They're trying to shoot the messenger, and this kind of stuff has a chilling effect on free speech.
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