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$5M In Torrented Files Presented As Art

Posted by timothy on from the think-about-the-street-value-of-this-mountain dept.

ideonexus snips thus from Wired: "The Art 404 gallery is currently exhibiting a piece by Manuel Palou called '5 Million Dollars, 1 Terabyte' which is a 'sculpture' consisting of a 1 TB external hard drive containing $5,000,000 worth of illegally downloaded files. The hard drive is displayed on a pedestal at the gallery." Adds ideonexus: "There is a PDF of the files stored on the device with links to the torrents." I'd like this to be an exhibit at every trial in which gigantic money damages are claimed for copyright infringement.

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  1. A PDF? by Hatta · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I don't know which is stupider, the concept of the art project, or that they are distributing a list of links over the internet with a PDF file.

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  2. Re:Two can play it that game by Tsingi · · Score: 3, Interesting
    If you had a terabyte of music, they would sue for a lot more than $5,000,000.00.

    Interesting system, it's just like conjuring money out of thin air. In the olde daze a pirate was someone who had to work for his money, kill, rape, plunder. Now all he has to do is copy a file. Not even steal it, just make a copy

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