Paulo Coelho's open letter to industry: "Greed does not understand that this world has changed"

Paulo Coelho is back to talk through your blog for a defense turned on Internet applications and highlight the appalling ignorance in which they live these days governments and entertainment industries, imposing laws that censor the advancement of culture and development on the network. A call to those who govern us with a clear message: sharing is not stealing, is a law of human history, and if so, declare a lover of piracy.

As in other cases, the novelist, playwright and lyricist Brazil launches a message of truth, not without irony much you want to skip from the same sector. Thankfully, people like Coelho, one of the most widely read writers in the world with over 50 million books sold, with a comfortable life, success and why would not lift a finger to change their situation, show all those "authors" who released their slogan to not change the past and manipulate standard concepts, there is life beyond censorship.

The writer has made in recent years great truths, sensible messages and full of common sense. Three years ago, during an interview made ​​the following observation:

Since the dawn of time, humans have felt the need to share, sharing is part of the human condition. A person who does not share is not only selfish, but bitter and alone.

It so happens that Coelho also sell now even more thanks to the so-called "piracy", the distribution changes, but as he says, if the work is good, if it's worth, you end up getting the necessary feedback. I leave you with little reflection, a short story that hangs on his blog under the title: Who stole my story?, Which he enacted to be distributed freely:

When I was an active person in Myspace (now not), the song "Fly Me to the Moon" by Frank Sinatra, was removed from my profile. Why removed the song? The answer is simple: because of greed and ignorance. Greed does not understand that this world has changed. The ignorance that thinks that if music is available for free, people will not buy the CD.

- Some say I'm rich enough to afford to have the texts here for free.
It is true that I am rich (like Frank Sinatra, and his heirs), but this is not the case. The point is that we share something in the first place. If you go to most web pages, what will? fantastic images, great blogs, great pictures ... for free. My texts are free here. And you can play anywhere as long as they name the author.

- The industry will mean that artists can not survive without being paid.
The industry is thinking in the opposite direction from our current reality. Hilal I follow on Twitter (though she tweets do once a year ...). Hilal is from Turkey but lives in Russia (and she is the star of ALEPH). She first read "The Alchemist" in a pirated edition. Hilal downloaded the text, read it, and decided to buy the book. Until today, I have more than 12,000,000 copies sold in Russia, and counting.

- They also decided to create "The Pirate Coelho, a unofficial fan page that allows users to download the full text in different languages. I'm selling more books than ever. Where is it? Well, it is hard to find ...

- How did all these social communities?
At first it was only for those who wanted to talk to another person. But the chat was not enough - we had to share the music, book or movie that we love. When there was no law prohibiting it, information is exchanged freely. Finally, when the entertainment industry was successful, the repression began.

- Art is not an orange.
If you buy an orange and eat it, what you have is to buy another, and then it makes sense that oranges not be given free of charge, as the consumer uses the product. Art is beauty. The music is about beauty. If you visit a page and I love music, I'm sure I'll buy the CD, because I want to know more about the artist's work.

- A woman went to a market and saw two jars.
She asked the seller for the price: "The dimes," he said.
The woman was surprised: "But one of these bottles has been painted by an artist!"
The seller replied: "I am selling jars. The beauty is priceless "

Paulo Coelho's open letter to industry: "Greed does not understand that this world has changed," written in ALT1040 April 29, 2011-jorge miguel
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