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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 sjames on Sunday December 27 2015, @09:34PM
They did jump on it, but only the parts that didn't result in them being out of the loop. It takes time to invent new and more draconian DRM. While that was going on, they did switch to digital recording and mastering which is cheaper than pro level analog recording. They were pretty quick to push CDs which were cheaper to make and cheaper to ship than LPs.They avoided PC based recording because that wouldn't let them put bands in debt where they could fudge the numbers in their favor. They resisted downloading for a long time because of the lack of unbreakable DRM.
None of that resulted in a lower price. When they were finally convinced to get into downloadable music, they made it even more expensive.