Exercise patience. Or pay for it.

I bought physical books for my guys, and a pdf.

Or, since it's legally permissible to redistribute (or at least I believe so: you'd need Posthuman to clarify but I believe everything's under CC now), find someone who's giving it away before Rob does. Can't fault a man for waiting to give away his livelihood for not living up to the CC ideals since the license means that literally anyone can give the book away.

they are free to redistribute but its discouraged from publicly linking them on the forums

No, they're not open source. They're Creative Commons licensed, which is very different. If you scan your book and release it, that's perfectly fine.If you buy the PDF and release it, more power to you. You bought it, you own it. But Posthuman has no obligation to release it for you, and they need to stay in business. I grump about philosophical differences I have with them now and again, but they absolutely have every right to make a profit on the hard work they put into these books.

Just to throw my two credits into the ring, I'm one of those who would have never bought the core rulebook if I couldn't have downloaded the entire PDF first. The way I see it, I have no problem waiting for a while to snatch a PDF from the blog rather than using one that I've found, because my criteria for putting money on it is 'do i want a physical book for the table?' (i don't use a laptop while running a game, so it's the only way I can access the rules). Unfortunately, this means that in the near future I'm only going to actually buy two books (Transhuman and the Morph Recognition Guide), because those are definitely getting used at the table. This doesn't mean I'm never buying the rest in hardback, I even plan on getting Transhumanity's Fate because I love the Fate system, but I just don't have the money to right now. The real thing for me though, is that giving away the ability to share pdfs makes running a game so much easier. In my experience a group will generally only have one copy of the rules (normally the GM), occasionally two when I bothered to pick them up, so looking up rules is slow and most of the time only the GM understands how the game works (or potentially not even them, I once learnt more about the rules with five minutes on Wikipedia than the GM did in a month of having the book). However, with eclipse phase I can just send a copy of the PDF (out just the rules) to everybody in the group a week before the game, allowing everyone to understand how it works, or at least the basic mechanics, limiting the fighting over the one physical book.

ORCACommander wrote:

it also allows more players to have their characters ready ahead of time for session 1

It depends, I like everyone building characters together because they can come up with how their characters know each other, but it is a significant benefit for players to be familiar with the character creation mechanics.