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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. Reductio ad Absurdum by QuietLagoon · · Score: 5, Informative

    The refutation of a proposition by demonstrating the inevitably absurd conclusion to which it would logically lead.

  2. Re:Accounting 101 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    These are not losses. They are unrealized potential profit. Nobody is actually losing anything.

    #Wooosh!

    the whole idea is not that this represents actual losses.. but that it represents what the record labels say are their losses whenever they bring up piracy and torrents and file lawsuits

  3. the Kopimashin is illegal in England by dmoen · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Kopimashin is illegal in England:
    http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/17/high-court-quashes-regulations-copy-cds-musicians

    It might be illegal in other jurisdictions as well? And that's kind of the point of building it.

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