How would you react if.....

Approximately 3 weeks ago, I received a mail from an editorial in Spain, that asked me to publish some article that they had published in 2005 (!) in one of their journals on a new portal that will be addressing Spanish speaking software developers.

Sounds good?

Let's get more facts:

1) It's true I wrote some drafts (!) for this article, but in English.

2) The last one I send in was never confirmed, and I never received any follow up notice or answer to mails I send to ask about what happened to the article.

3) I was never asked, nor did I ever transfer my copyright as author to the editorial.

4) I was never informed of the translation, nor did I ever receive any notice of publication.

5) I never received any form of payment or compensation from the editorial.

6) I never received any copy of the translated and published article (holds true until recent, read on).

Still sounds good to you?

Well, after I received this mail, I kindly wrote them that I would prefer to see a copy of that article before I agree that they use it any further. I did receive as response, that "they are sorry", but that they were going to send me an electronic copy.

I waited. 16 days, without any notice.

Given the experience in 2005, where they suddenly just disappeared, I pulled up a more "concise" mail (and yes, I was angry about the way they handled this; this is a translation from Spanish):

[...]
I still have not received any copy of the article that you have published in number 6 of the SDJ Journal.
It seems to me that you don't want to send one either.

I expect to receive a copy as soon as possible, otherwise I think I will consider legal steps against your editorial because of copyright infringement.

The article in question was originally written in English, and I was never explicitly asked permission to translate and publish this work.
[...]

Suddenly, I do receive a copy!! Objective accomplished, but I seem to have annoyed them. Here some quotes:

I don't understand the tone of your mail.

("heeeelloooooooooo!?")

I sent you a copy of the electronic version of the SDJ number 6 where your article was published, when you received the former mail, about 2 weeks ago.

(I never got any? Let's blame a "lost attachment"?; and yes, I was also angry because I lost time searching the approx. 2k spam mails to see whether a mail from the editor with an attachment was lost before writing.)

I would like to close this topic and the collaboration with you. We don't usually collaborate in such an unpleasant environment, or in the tone you have taken.

WoW! Great. Now it's all me :)

But I agree with you. I also would like to close this chapter, and I surely don't want to collaborate in such an environment either.

How would you react if you figure that somebody published your work some while ago, without your explicit permission or agreement, translated (badly) to another language and sold it at 7,50 Euro per copy to customers?

I am sorry, but I am angry. Its nothing personal, its just that from my point of view it is unprofessional and unethical.

UPDATE:
I have been contacted by the editor, and they wrote:

Now I understand the tone of your mail. I think that the person that worked here three years ago doesn't work here any longer. It is possible that some things were not arranged properly, because there are many new people in this Editorial, since there are many that come and go.

I am sorry for this situation, and I think we don't have the right to further publish your article.

(Note: the whole thing started from being asked if they may publish the article on an online portal).

Looks like they finally understood what went wrong. Hopefully they manage this better for other authors from now on.