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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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(Score: 2) by frojack on Saturday December 26 2015, @08:17PM
If a song is copied to /dev/null and no-one is there to hear it, does it still make a sound?
Maybe you were aiming for humor, but you've accidentally hit the nail on the head.
This whole episode with the raspberry-Pi does nothing but expose Peter Sunde's utter stupidity. He trumpets it as if he has proven a grand point, and mistakes the laughter as approbation.
Making a copy and then sending it to /dev/null is not copying at all. Because when he is done, he has no more copies than he started with, and actually fewer copies than he was authorized by law to make.
If he preserved each copy on separate media, such that they were fungible, and warehoused them against the day the copyright expired, he has still not committed any violation. Its only upon distribution (sale or gift) that a violation of copyright actually occurs.
Yes, I'm aware that some countries try to ban the actual creation of any copy whatsoever, but that level of stupidity isn't enforceable anywhere. Not since the invention of digital storage.
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