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

Posted by timothy on from the conceptual-art-vs-conceptual-nonsense dept.

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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  1. I'll buy him another by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    If it will speed up the process and kill them faster.

    1. Re:I'll buy him another by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Canada must have really pissed you off...

  2. That bad... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know a song is really bad is when it goes straight to /dev/null without being heard.

    1. Re:That bad... by pr0fessor · · Score: 4, Funny

      There may be a guinness world record in there. "The song with the most deleted copies."

    2. Re:That bad... by jd2112 · · Score: 4, Funny

      mv Justin_Beiber /dev/null

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      Any insufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
    3. Re:That bad... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I tried that but just got back the message

      "Error: There's some things even I don't want"

    4. Re: That bad... by robi5 · · Score: 5, Funny

      That would be U2

    5. Re:That bad... by Coisiche · · Score: 5, Funny

      So you actually have a directory called Justin_Beiber?

      No wonder you're posting as AC.

  3. I do the same thing... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...but with the Koran. Let's seem 'em come and jihad me!

  4. Well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    As an audiophile, I am able to hear music even from /dev/null. So good luck with arguing in court that the copies are useless.

  5. Re:brilliantly absurd and hilarious by SJHillman · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sorry, I sent Beatles.Revolution.mp3 to /dev/null

  6. Re:Now explain that to the judge by cfc-12 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Clearly it's the same mechanism by which the sun's energy is being sucked up by those solar panels in Woodland, NC.

  7. Howdy partner, another audiophile here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now that you mention it, I am noticing a tiny itty-bitty quality loss caused by storing the FLAC bits in /dev/null. Are you able to notice this quality loss?

    1. Re:Howdy partner, another audiophile here by plover · · Score: 5, Funny

      My /dev/null has a hand rubbed walnut finish, a tube stage feeding a hand-wound transformer, polarized cables, Ukranian porcelain stand-offs, and anti-magnetic monopoles crafted from moon rocks to lower the noise floor. It's extremely danceable.

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      John
  8. Re: Now explain that to the judge by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Can we subpoena Mr Dev Null?
    We should charge and arrest Dev Null. What? It's not a person? Is this terrorism related? We should outlaw it. Usage of dev null aids the enemy. It's unamerican to use dev null."

  9. Re: Now explain that to the judge by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sure. You can send anything you want to him. I wouldn't count on a reply, however.

  10. Re:He should use... by Opportunist · · Score: 5, Funny

    He tried, but even /dev/null didn't want to accept this as input.

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  11. Re:Oh the Humanity! by Opportunist · · Score: 3, Funny

    Send them to /dev/null.

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    We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
  12. Re:Now explain that to the judge by Catbeller · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or by the New Order's Planet Sun Cannon.

  13. that's "figuratively" bankrupt by swschrad · · Score: 3, Funny

    but hey, that's their measurements... bye, guys. sorta sucks having known ya. watching for my favorite artists to sell on their own websites...

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    if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?