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Clearly you haven't watched or read what I linked.
Gaiman never gave permission for people to pirate their books, but he became famous in Russia through this and his sales sky rocketed by 300% when he put the Graveyard book free for one month. His books are continually pirated and his sales continually grow.
As for Coelho I'll quote him since you seem to didnt read what he said:
"In 1999, when I was first published in Russia ( with a print- run of 3,000), the country was suffering a severe paper shortage. By chance, I discovered a ‘ pirate’ edition of The Alchemist and posted it on my web page.
An year later, when the crisis was resolved, I sold 10,000 copies of the print edition.
By 2002, I had sold a million copies in Russia, and I have now sold over 12 million."
You dont honestly think people downloaded only from his site? And only one book he put? Come now.
Point is, and these two writers got it, piracy (ofc its without their permission) only serves as publicity and makes them known and more famous in countries where they wouldn't have been known or bought in such a quantity if not for people pirating their work.
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