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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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What's a Digital Copy Worth? Not Much, Says Peter Sunde's New Machine
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F.S. Fitzgerald to Hemingway:
"Ernest, the rich are different from us."
Hemingway:
"Yes. They have more money."
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 26 2015, @05:35PM
But the industry has one last trick up its sleeve.
Did I hear you right, did I hear you saying
That you're gonna make a copy of a song without paying?
Come on guys. I thought you knew better, don't download that torrent. (don't don't don't d-d-don't)
Everybody knows the copying of floppies came to a screeching halt after the release of this video [youtube.com]. I mean, when's the last time you copied a floppy?
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Saturday December 26 2015, @09:53PM
I thought you were thinking of this video [youtube.com], which clearly advises viewers to not download songs.
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