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This is my club Monaco from KM Voices Prologue In November 2000 and eight, the surviving members of the original Monty Python team, stunned by the extent of digital piracy of their videos, issued a very stern announcement on YouTube. For three years, you YouTubers have been ripping us off, taking tens of thousands of our videos and putting them on YouTube. Now the tables are turned. It's time for us to take matters into her own hands. We know who you are. We know where you live. And we could come after you in ways too horrible to tell. But being the extraordinarily nice chaps we are, we figured a better way to get our own back. We've launched our own Monty Python channel on YouTube. No more of those crap quality videos you've been posting. We're giving you the real thing high quality videos delivered straight from our vault. What's more, we're taking our most feud clips and uploading brand new high quality versions. And what's even more, we're letting you see absolutely everything for free. So there. But we want something in return. None of your drivel ng mindless comets. Instead, we want you to click on the links by our movies and TV shows and soften our pain and discussed it being ripped off all these years. Three months later, the results of this rash experiment with free were in Monty Python's DVDs had climbed to number two on Amazon's movies and TV Bestsellers list, with increased sales of 23,000%. So there free worked and worked brilliantly. More than two million people watched the clips on YouTube as word of mouth spread and parents introduce their Children to the Black Knight and the Dead Parrot sketch. Thousands of viewers were reminded how much they loved Monty Python and wanted more, so they ordered the DVDs response videos, mash ups and remixes spread, and a new generation learned the proper meaning of Killer Rabbit. And all this cost Monty Python essentially nothing since YouTube paid all the bandwidth and storage costs, such as they were. What's surprising about this example is how unsurprising it is. There are countless other cases just like this online, where pretty much everything is given away for free in some version, with the hopes of selling something else or even more frequently, with no expectation of pay at all, I'm typing these words on a $250 netbook computer, which is the fastest growing new category of laptop. The operating system happens to be a version of Free Lennox, although it doesn't matter, since I don't run any programmes but the free Firefox Web browser. I'm not using Microsoft Word but rather free Google Docs, which has the advantage of making my draft's available to me wherever I am, and I don't have to worry about backing them up. Since Google takes care of that for me, everything else I do on this computer is free from my email to my Twitter feeds. Even the wireless access is free, thanks to the coffee shop I'm sitting in. And yet Google is one of the most profitable companies in America. The Lennox ecosystem is a $30 billion industry, and the coffee shop seems to be selling $3 lattes as fast as they can make them. Therein lies the paradox of free People are making lots of money, charging nothing, not nothing for everything, but nothing for enough that we have essentially created an economy as big as a good sized country around the price of $0. How does this happen? And where is it going? That's the central question of this book