Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn

I have no idea who Paul Coelho is, but if he or any author, musician, band, movie producer, porn chick or any other person who spent time and money creating art of some kind wants to give their content away for free or try alternative distrbution methods to gain attention, traffic and monetize it with ads, straight sales or whatever, that is their prerogative. The problem arises when people decide for themselves that they should be able to help themselves to the media that others created without compensating them.