If you are a student in a remote village with no credit card and no library, and the only way you can read The Alchemist is via a pirated PDF—many would argue (and Coelho himself has implied) that you should read it. The moral weight is lower when the alternative is not reading at all.
Copyright laws protect authors for 50 to 70 years after their death (Coelho is still alive, born 1947). When you download a free PDF from a random website, the author, the publisher, the translator, and the editor receive zero royalties. buku paulo coelho pdf
However, Paulo Coelho himself throws a fascinating wrench into this discussion. If you are a student in a remote