One of the few people who advocated about piracy at the DLD is writer Paolo Coehlo. He put copies of his books on his personal blog "The Pirate Coehlo" and boosted his sales to 100.ooo copies.
This a blog that I came up recently and it has an amazing image collection taken from old books. Some of them are also have been published in a very nice book named after the blog's name. Link here