Maybe I should have spelt it out better: > They didn't ban them enough... Google would remove the pirated books, but not the offender's accounts, allowing the

Maybe I should have spelt it out better: > They didn't ban them enough... Google would remove the pirated books, but not the offender's accounts, allowing them to continue selling stolen books. >...then when they banned them, that was too much. Google hasn't banned them. The existing pirate accounts are still in business. What Google did was stop the enrolment of all new self-publishing authors to prevent a small minority of potential new criminals. Google will take down those existing pirate accounts on an ad-hoc basis in response to complaints. I shouldn't have had to spell this out when it is already made clear in the linked article. The contradiction really only exists in the somewhat uncharitable way you re-framed what I wrote.