Pirate Bay Founder Builds The Ultimate Piracy Machine

TorrentFreak ^ | December 19, 2015 | Ernesto

[Utilizer]

Former Pirate Bay spokesperson Peter Sunde has always been very outspoken about people's inherent drive to copy things.

Last year he paid the ultimate price of sacrificing his freedom for his involvement in TPB, but that hasn't changed his core 'kopimi' values.

One of Peter's major frustrations is how the entertainment industries handles the idea of copying. When calculating the losses piracy costs, they often put too much value on pirated copies.

This is something Peter knows all too well, as he still owes various movie and music companies millions in damages.

However, this hasn't stopped him from continuing to copy. In fact, he's just built the ultimate copying machine using a Raspberry Pi, an LCD display and some Python code.

With these three ingredients the "Kopimashin" makes 100 copies of the Gnarls Barkely track "Crazy" every second. This translates to more than eight million copies per day and roughly $10 million in 'losses.'

[dinodino]

I think Coldplay is another example.

[varyouga]

Remember that they also tried to ban us from recording songs on the radio (or copying from other tapes).

Music fans have been sharing widely since tape decks were created. Yet truly good bands NEVER had issues selling albums where most songs were good. People were PROUD to own, look at and touch such amazing albums even if a friend already gave them a copy.

MAYBE, just maybe, the reason most “bands” aren’t selling albums today is because they’re fake marketing creations of a greedy industry trying to hawk re-hashed autotuned garbage. To make their friends and casting couch whores money. Where *maybe* one song on an album manages to sound good enough to buy.

I haven’t listened to a mainstream album worth buying in its entirety since the mid 90s. F you greedy bastards, you did it to yourselves!

[Utilizer]

I remember back when FM stations used to brag about the high quality of their Stereo Broadcasts, and AM/FM receivers used to have a small light that turned on only when a stereo signal was received.

Announcers used to advertise a certain date when they would play the entire album of a popular band so that listeners would know when to start taping. They would even announce just before the music started to “get your tape decks ready!” so you could record the entire album for repeated later listening.

Can’t tell you how many cassettes I wore out playing them over and over. My favourite was a TDK premium tape, can’t remember if it was a C-60 or a C-90 with Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” on it on both sides. :)

Good memories of that one.

[SauronOfMordor]

I see some bands deliberately putting their music on Youtube for free download, as a way to generate interest for their live performances. This bypasses the whole corporate music industry, and allows musicians who are actually good to develop a following via social media.