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Monopoly corrupts. Absolute monopoly corrupts absolutely.
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Piracy and Sales
via Slashdot we hear a story about an author who raised sales of his book from 1000 a year to 1 million a year by aggressively making sure copies got pirated. I admit I have my doubts about these numbers; and I'm also quite sure that piracy of Harry Potter novels lowered rather than increased sales of the books. But what most authors (and musicians) rightly fear is not piracy but obscurity...for these marginal creators, IP has little to offer, and indeed, by making it easy for large intermediaries to act as gate keepers, IP is something for them to fear.
[Posted at 01/25/2008 06:31 AM by David K. Levine on Was Napster Right? 
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Dear Levine,
That author is Paulo Coelho, a famous wirter in Brazil. He is actually the best-seller brazilian writter, with a always cited case where Bill Clinton said that he liked Paulo Coelho. So, you are probably right to doubt of these numbers. He has an agressive traditional marteking here in Brazil.
You guys do a great job. Here in the blo and also in economics.
[Comment at 02/06/2008 06:38 AM by Manoel Neto]
Thanks. Interesting that a famous author Coelho chose this route: perhaps even the famous need fear obscurity - at least for some of their work.
[Comment at 02/11/2008 09:09 AM by David K. Levine]
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