What is your opinion on free contents in Internet?
As you can see in my blog, I share as much as I can. The entertainment business thinks that it’s hurting their revenues, which I don’t think it is.
I think that the content is free, beauty is free and you have to share, despite of your human condition.
This is a very important moment to discuss that because they are threatening to pass laws for forbidding people to share their contents. I like to hear your opinion on this.
Thank you!
Paulo
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los contenidos deberàn ser libres y sin costo porque es la unica forma de admirar conocer y saber de los diferentes continenten paises y tambie`n una bella forma de compartir con diferentes culturas incluso hoy en dìa es la forma de conocer a la otra mitad ya que por falta de tiempo o medios la gente no puede hacer vida social sin embargo mediante esta herramienta llamada internet todo ha sido posible en mi ejemplo personal toda la vida me a encantado las letras y hoy estoy feliz de podernos comunicar mediante tu pagina y poder emitir alguna idea o contar mis experiencias saludos mi paulo
Nos gusta competir y ganar,es facil,sea donde sea la competicion,o cual sea el tipo de competicion….nos gusta competir y ganar,es algo intimo de nosotros mismos….a veses competimos por pura diversidad?….no mo me lo creo,combatir constructivamente,creo que seria una buena idea..
fredoom in every way people prectice is a human nedd for own growt as individual but human i talking about real h. b . will do it whith resaponsability to dont harm others inocents people also is a powerfull weapon so be very carefully in which way it use p.s ilove paulo cohelo
Knowledge and beauty are none’s possession…….All the content should be absolutely free.
I agree. Should be free … our life – barter? No!
Tatiana from Moscow, Russia
I think it’s okay to be free since most of the ideas aren’t really “ours”. You know, like an idea just come across you and you’re fortunate to grab it. I think the “idea” or “the genius” is just using a person as an instrument to share the idea to other people.
But let’s not forget to give credit to the one who created something, for of course he/she also used his energy and time in order to make that something.
gosto de ler seus livros
“If you love something give it away”-I heard this in a song and reading your post reminded of the lyric…The positive side of like-mindedness…
i think, internet gives all of us; a valuable chance to share our perspectives, ideas, feelings, experinces and a valuable chance to learn from each other, to know that; there is lots of worlds in each human being on our single home; earth.. And this every “unique” world(colour) of each person, makes us more rich at the whole… And i believe that, this chance should be reachable for every one. This “change” means Change.. And that is what we need; to look out from our personal worlds or what we have learned; to imagining that;
another world is possible!(in personal and general meaning)
I want to share with you something from my “world”; about this thema… The first sketch at the link below tells;
A human being is; either physically or mentally
(spiritually) nothing; except of what he/she takes and didn`t give back to his/her enviroment yet. I mean; we are existing from what we take and didn`t gave back yet. for example; if the body dies, our physical existence unropes in the soil. I mean without the things, which we took from our enviroment; we are just border lines…
And there is two kind of human behaviour, after we took something from our enviroment; to give back to the enviroment( it means change and renew yourself)or to not give back to the enviroment, which means; izolation of yourself within your dick border walls, which means; in a flood/river of continuous changes, insisting of prisoning the the things(energy) in you, which is like; for example
if you dont let the water to cycle in its way(for example; puting it in a glass bottle and closing it) it will be roting/decaying… which dont means “life”…
I don`t mean with that; give all of the things you have, to the other people, who dont have it:) or i am not saying that; you can not eat more than 3 times in a day and it can`t make you more happy. Or, if you take(?) from your enviroment and make a mountain from that, you will not be very happy at the whole of your time.. Of course you can be.. There is lots of happy people on the earth.. But i am just thinking like that; (it is my subjective opinion; of course i can be wrong)
it is the time to start thinking in another way and start to behave in another way in every decision that we made and every small change what we are creating in our enviroment. We can not giving back; how we took it. It means “change”; that we made..
here is the link;
http://astronotoner.blogspot.com/2010/05/visual-zartsvijuyil-zurts-5-para-etmez.html
Peace and Love,
I love your blog just the way it is. Giving me a lot of inspiration. I think the fact that you share as much as you can makes you different from other authors & it shows clearly you are practicing the value you are writing about, as well as shows your kindness to help others & your willingness to connect in a deeper level with your readers. Business people sometimes are so short-sighted that they can see nothing further than a pile of money. For you, writing & sharing are the way of life so don’t let others make you stray from it .
Oh, I’m your biggest fan. The more I read the blog the more I want to collect all your books. Thank you for writing them ^_^
It is about sharing. Could’nt agree with you more.
Thanks to all of you sharing your thoughts, and of course your opinion on that topic, Paulo.
I received “The Alchemist” as a gift from one of best friends. He already read it and as we were speaking he decided to give me the book. It was the first evening I went to his appartment. I can still remember it so clearly, althogh it has been a while. Since then I bought every book of you, but never kept them. I decided to give the books to my dearest friends, sharing your thoughts and mine about the book. I gave them the books as a gift but also with a requirement. After reading it, it needs to be given to another special person.
My friends also went on buying the books and sharing them with their friends.
I hope you like the way I am sharing your thoughts.
The alchemist has changed my life completely, and I am thinking about this book so often. After I finished my studies, I was looking for a job closely to home as I wanted to stay with my friends and family and of course with my boyfriend. But I got a job offer in Austria, 700 km away from home. I decided to go there. I dont know how things will turn out here, but I have a good feeling about it.
Regards from Austria,
Angelika
Well if you are a good author, your fans are still going to support your work even if they are available for free.
If you are a good author, you wouldn’t care too much about how much you are earning, but how many people are reading.
Like for me, I’d find the most economical way first to read, if I really like it I’d buy to keep. I’ve been doing this because I’m not at the privilege to buy any books for ‘trying out’. So I only buy good work.
So I guess it boils down to content, not cost :)
La verdad que el poder compartir con los demás libremente es lo mejor que hay y es un sistema de relacionarse y conocer buena gente que la verdad merece la pena.
Saludos a todos
Hola Paulo, hola a todos!
leyendo las opiniones de todos aquí, me vienen dos simples frases que anteriormente leí (aunq no recuerdo autores) y que creo q gracias a la tecnología y al internet toman más fuerza…
“El conocimiento es un bien que crece, a medida en que se comparte”
“When you get, give… when you learn, TEACH”
Por qué estas frases? porque como mucho se menciona en todos estos comentarios, por medio de internet podemos contactarnos con muchas personas, descargar música o libros que nos gustan y por supuesto informarnos sobre muchas cosas. POR MEDIO DE INTERNET, TENEMOS EL PRIVILEGIO Y LA DICHA DE COMPARTIR CON LOS DEMÁS cosas sencillas, o alguna frase corta que en algún lugar del mundo alguien leera y a quien quiza le sea útil, o le levante el ánimo.. qué se yo, por lo que yo creo que descargar gratis cualquier archivo puede ayudar a hacer más grande el “bien del conocimiento” y también el arte, por qué no?.
Como todo lo creado por el hombre… internet tiene sus cosas buenas y malas… todo depende del uso INDIVIDUAL que querramos darles.
Felices fiestas.
Paulo, que deleite haber encontrado una página donde pueda leerte aparte de tus libros, e incluso donde todos podamos comentar al respecto. Definitivamente otra de las maravillas del internet.
Hasta pronto.
Gabriela
Guatemala
Dear Paolo,
One of the writers said” Take everything from me I wont die, Put me into prison I want die but if take my right of speaking I’ll die.
Reyhan
I agree with you. I also like to get contents at free of cost. But how the owner of that content will survive?
He needs money directly or indirectly to make his content more and more beautiful. But Its ok if there is no problem with the owner of the content.
Three days back I had the chance to grab “The Alchemist”.. Finished it off in 3 days ..and then re read some of the parts again..
It is your first book I’ve read and I think I’m yet to grasp the whole message of the story.
However, I would like to tell you that it has made me make an important decision of life.. though I’m not sure whether I would be able to stick to it.. but I think I will.
I guess your book came to my hands at the right time.. it was destined to be.. so that I could decide upon this most important aspect of my life.
Thanks :)..I thank u with my heart :)
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