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What's a Digital Copy Worth? Not Much, Says Peter Sunde's New Machine

posted by cmn32480 on Saturday December 26 2015, @03:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-all-phoney-money dept.

requerdanos writes:

Peter Sunde, co-founder of The Pirate Bay, has taken steps to refute the notion of many in the music publishing industry that each digital copy has a certain value--upon which should be based damages if someone is found to have committed copyright infringement.

Sunde has built a machine from a Raspberry PI, called Kopismashin, designed to make copies of single tracks at the rate of 100 copies per second [and drops them to /dev/null].

"I want to show the absurdity on the process of putting a value to a copy.... [F]ollowing their rhetoric and mindset it will bankrupt them," says Sunde.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by jdavidb on Sunday December 27 2015, @03:23AM

    by jdavidb (5690) on Sunday December 27 2015, @03:23AM (#281361) Homepage Journal

    I don't consider myself to be bound by agreements my ancestors made. If I did I'd be in the Catholic church, I guess. In fact I would say those agreements were wrong in the first place because not everybody agreed to them but everybody was bound by them. I agree with a lot of people that those agreements simply hold no authority [praxeology.net].

    Sure, some people's worlds will change if they suddenly can't earn a living from a long-standing grant of monopoly privilege backed up by government force. But people's worlds change every day. If you make your living from a banana tree every day and one day it doesn't have bananas, you're like all of the rest of us and will have to come up with some other way to support yourself. Or if you make your living from forcing dark people to pick cotton ... you get the idea.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Sunday December 27 2015, @03:57AM

    by frojack (1554) on Sunday December 27 2015, @03:57AM (#281365) Journal

    I don't consider myself to be bound by agreements my ancestors made.

    Then you are in for a very tough life.

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