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: 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.
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