Pirate Bay Cofounder Utterly Bankrupts the Music Industry (torrentfreak.com)

JustAnotherOldGuy writes: Peter "brokep" Sunde, co-founder of The Pirate Bay, has built a machine that makes 100 copies per second of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy," storing them in /dev/null (which is of course, deleting them even as they're created). The machine, called a "Kopimashin," is cobbled together out of a Raspberry Pi, some hacky python that he doesn't want to show anyone, and an LCD screen that calculates a running tally of the damages he's inflicted upon the record industry through its use. The 8,000,000 copies it makes every day costs the record industry $10m/day in losses. At that rate, they'll be bankrupt in a few weeks at most.

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This is "news"?

[Christopher Cashell]

Ok, first of all, this is one of the dumbest "news" stories I've seen here in a while. It's really lame.

Secondly, he had to write python for this stupidity? From any bash shell:

while (true); do cat /path/to/song.mp3 >> /dev/null; echo "Another copy made." ; done

I think I actually lost intelligence by reading and spending 30 seconds thinking about how dumb this whole thing is.