I've been thinking about this some more and I think we have missed the boat on this one. Everyone keeps talking about being the Copyright Police, but what we are talking about here are links to potentially infringing content.

In fact, I think one can argue that leaving the links may put PerlMonks at greater legal risk than removing them. Think about it this way -- if this was a gaming site and someone posted a link to a warez copy of a game do you really think that post would be left untouched? Or any other software for that matter. I know on modmymoto.com links to RSD Lite get removed all the time.

So why is it that removing links to illegal copies of books is a problem for us when removing links to warez on just about any other site is not a problem for them? What if someone posted a link to say an internal beta of Windows 7? Do you think it would be riskier to leave it or remove it?