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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 26 2015, @09:46PM
Odds a good that if you did that, you compensated the artists through a private copying levy.
You are only causing economic harm if you distribute those unauthorized copies in order to promote your venue (raising the bar top commercial infringement, rather than private study). I suppose you could argue that some bystanders may try to sell the unauthorized copies: raising the bar to commercial infringement, rather than private study in that case as well.