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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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Hey, wait a minute!! I want a divorce!! ... you're not Clint Eastwood!!
(Score: 4, Insightful) by linuxrocks123 on Sunday December 27 2015, @09:37AM
INSIGHTFUL? SERIOUSLY? Parent's is the dumbest argument about anything ever.
Creative endeavors != engineering; you don't design a better song by copying exactly what the last guy did and then shortening the critical path so you can increase the tempo. You write a good song -- not necessarily better -- by studying the general principles of musical composition, learning an instrument, and then doing something that feels right to you; if you're lucky, other people will think it feels right to them as well. What you are creating by doing this isn't something others can really build on top of, and that's why some of the most renowned music, literature, and artwork is very, very old, yet deserves its renown.
Or would you like an example instead?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_(Rebecca_Black_song) [wikipedia.org]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachelbel%27s_Canon [wikipedia.org]
I rest my case.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Sunday December 27 2015, @03:45PM
Insightful comment. However, as I point out in the forward to my book "Yesterday's Tomorrows", art and literature does indeed build on what's come before. Imagine how technology would suffer if patents lasted for 95 years--that's how art and literature are suffering under present copyright laws.
For instance, if I wrote a completely original sequel to the James Bond series, it would not be legal to publish it. My copyrights should not outlive me, but they will outlive my children. Look at Seether's "Same Damn Life". They could not have published that song if the copyright to the 1962 Peggy March "I Will Follow Him" had been renewed, but the Seether tune is a completely new thing, built on and fro an old thing.
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