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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: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Sunday December 27 2015, @02:57AM
While I understand that viewpoint, you have to understand that because this artificial monopoly was in fact issued by the society as a whole, agreed upon at the very founding of the nation, the monopoly remains the law of the land, indeed, the law of the world.
The "patterns", as you so glibly dismiss them, are created by people, some of whom exhibit unusual talent, and others are willing to pay for the "patterns". Why do you want them? Because they are appealing? Because you couldn't make the same yourself? They clearly have value to you. You are willing to take significant risk to acquire them.
Yet you dismiss them as patterns and devalue the creative process that the rest of society agrees does exist and is worth granting a temporary monopoly over the patterns to the creator.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by jdavidb on Sunday December 27 2015, @03:23AM
I don't consider myself to be bound by agreements my ancestors made. If I did I'd be in the Catholic church, I guess. In fact I would say those agreements were wrong in the first place because not everybody agreed to them but everybody was bound by them. I agree with a lot of people that those agreements simply hold no authority [praxeology.net].
Sure, some people's worlds will change if they suddenly can't earn a living from a long-standing grant of monopoly privilege backed up by government force. But people's worlds change every day. If you make your living from a banana tree every day and one day it doesn't have bananas, you're like all of the rest of us and will have to come up with some other way to support yourself. Or if you make your living from forcing dark people to pick cotton ... you get the idea.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Sunday December 27 2015, @03:57AM
I don't consider myself to be bound by agreements my ancestors made.
Then you are in for a very tough life.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Sunday December 27 2015, @03:27AM
Yet you dismiss them as patterns and devalue the creative process that the rest of society agrees does exist and is worth granting a temporary monopoly over the patterns to the creator.
No, the rest of society does not agree that it is worth granting a temporary monopoly over patterns. I doubt even half of society agrees with that, and the number is shrinking all the time.
As to whether that means I think the creative process is valuable or not - that's more of a religious question if you ask me. I used to play in high school band, and in football season we'd march out onto the field while the school district announcer gave a long speech about a bunch of stuff. One thing he always said, referencing the football team, was "do not by your actions cause them to doubt the value of their hard work, or of athletics." I always wondered "why? What difference does it make if some people think athletics is valuable and some don't? Why can't people have their own personal opinions about whether its valuable to do grueling training for football or not? Why must we all agree?" The basic gist of it was: hold our beliefs and value systems, or you are a bad person. That's a religion, if you ask me, and I don't share it.
ⓋⒶ☮✝🕊 Secession is the right of all sentient beings