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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: 4, Insightful) by wonkey_monkey on Saturday December 26 2015, @06:47PM

    by wonkey_monkey (279) on Saturday December 26 2015, @06:47PM (#281242) Homepage

    "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.

    Well, obviously not, since he's chosen an absurdist way of copying a file. It does absolutely nothing to alter the scarcity or availability of the work in question. If he was smart, he wouldn't bother wasting his time doing what he's claimed - he'd just say he had. The net result would be exactly the same.

    This is just a piece of performance art designed to draw attention to the nefarious tactics of copyright holders. I'm not saying that's not a useful thing to do, but it's not like it's going to set any precedents in court.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday December 26 2015, @07:23PM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Saturday December 26 2015, @07:23PM (#281248) Journal

    100% correct. It's performance art, not far off from what is done by the likes of Banksy [thisiscolossal.com], Ai Weiwei [npr.org], Simon Denny [theguardian.com], Trevor Paglen [theguardian.com], and others.

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