“There [was] no sign saying ‘please do not steal the computers,’” Richard Charkin wrote on his blog.  “If you don’t want Google to digitize your books, you must tell them not to do it,” Charkin told The Register. “With our heist, we were merely doing to Google what they’re doing to us.”

While I personally think book publishers are being a bunch of crybaby luddites about the Google Library Project, I must award points for this creative (if inequitable) turn of play.