torrentfreak.com — If anti-piracy lobbyists are to be believed, all content creators hate The Pirate Bay and other torrent sites. The truth is obviously more balanced. In fact, some of the most creative minds are BitTorrent users themselves, including best selling author Paulo Coelho, who offered to travel to Sweden to testify in favor of The Pirate Bay.
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dsmxApr 15, 2009
Who can't love the pirate bay? They have the balls to stand up to big media, no government even has the balls to do that.
mikemehakApr 15, 2009
Dugg for Paulo Coelho.There is a lot to be said about Paulo.I could say he was a kind man, a smart man, even a noble man. But none of the things I could say about Paulo would really mean anything without first googling to find out who in the hell Paulo Coelho is.Sad when this article would be more if it read Carrot Top Supports the Pirate Bay or atleast someone that is at the very LEAST a B list celebrity.
thetikitonyApr 16, 2009
Now stop and think about this statement:"No on has the right over intellectual property except the owner."The real question in internet pirating is just that, who has rights over intellectual property. There's a good argument both ways.
ofenzaApr 16, 2009
Paulo Coelho is a pretty big seller here in Portugal, but his books are so cheap. I hate his writing. It's like cheap pop music.
Closed AccountApr 16, 2009
So what. He likes to give away his works. OK, that is his decision. He gave permission, if you will. The P word here is important. Remember, the difference between seduction and rape is permission. One act is legal and the other is not. It can be the same act, with the same parties -- but if one of them said NO, then things changed. A lot. Enough for someone to go to jail. If I ask to drive your car and you hand me the keys willingly, that is one thing. If I don't obtain permission first before peeling out in your ride, we have a felony in progress. It is all about asking permission before you take. If he wishes to give away his work, that is his choice. The problem is that Pirate Bay and others like it wish to "share" the work produced by others who didn't agree to give away their work. Hey, if I want to open up my beer fridge and let folks I like have a cold one -- that is one thing. If everyone on the street decides they have a right to walk into my den and pop tops until my fridge is empty, then we have a problem. I have produced copyrighted material. You take it and distribute it without permission or payment, you are stealing. You can call it "sharing", but I didn't agree to "share" with you. I am sure a bloodsucking leech doesn't like being called a bloodsucking leech. It can tell the poor fish it is sucking dry that what is going one is "sharing", but the fish notices that it seems to be a one-way flow. Parasites...Oh, and Pirate Bay and torrent types are killing one of my hobbies: PC gaming. I play computer games and it chaps my butt to see a gaming company make a great game like World of Goo, see 10-1 piracy rates on their game, and then go bankrupt. That really makes them want to go make another PC game, huh. So, don't give me that crap about how piracy stimulates sales. Tell that to the numerous gaming studios going bust after millions of copies of their works are pirated. Reality trumps conjecture.
rpgmakrApr 16, 2009
That sounded a lot like Leoben Conoy, my favorite cylon.Regarding to Paulo, he's always been very open in regards to the distribution of his work. I don't know if he still has it but he used to have some of his older books up for download on his website. The alchemist included.
melissawmApr 16, 2009
Paulo Coelho is such a jackass. He's only known outside of Brazil because of his translators. His writing is horrible and lacks creativity, he likes to create stories such as this one only to generate publicity around his name... Go ahead, digg me down.That said, I'm not at all against the Pirate Bay. But Paulo Coelho has nothing to do with it.
alexkorovaApr 17, 2009
A lot of people have read The Alchemist, a lot of people have enjoyed reading The Alchemist. Probably more than the people who enjoyed Carrot Top.
raydenvmJan 21, 2010
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