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Originally Posted by HarryT
I certainly accept that piracy can act as publicity, but do you not accept the fundamental principle that the creator of a work should have the right to decide for themselves whether or not they wish to give their work away free of charge? Personally I choose not to. Perhaps you do think that I "don't get it", but the point is that it's a choice that I should be free to make.
As far as Mr. Coelho goes, you said in your earlier post that he said:
That certainly sounds to me like giving permission for the redistribution of his books.
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Of course creator has that right. I accept that.
The concept you seem to refuse to understand is that breaking that right (piracy) produces benefit for these authors not damage.
I repeat again. These authors became famous and sold more copies because of piracy not because they gave their stuff for free.
Lol, Coelho said that in 2012. When he got how internet works. He was already famous, pirated and has sold million of copies in Russia and rest of the world in spite of piracy, or should I say because of it?
