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

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 26 2015, @07:52PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 26 2015, @07:52PM (#281258)

    So essentially, free copying and easy finding(!) of music is still killing the professional music-copier and distributor.

    I deliberately left that out. I wanted to point out that even their current model of music is self destructive. When you have several million of something 1 of something is not nearly worth as much.

    What you are talking about compounds the issue but does not fix the systemic issues they have. 1) huge pile of songs and 2) dramatically falling costs of production. The second one lets independent guys cut them out of the picture. Sort of like cord cutters and cord nevers.