The record industry insists that all unauthorized copies represent lost sales. So 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 to say, deleting them even as they're created).

The machine, called a "Kopimashin," is globbed 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.

"To quote Kenneth Goldsmith, I think the file-sharing trials of this century are going to be our obscenity trials. The claims are never valid, they're never based on actual damage. If that was the case, we would have been awarded money." "The economics work differently in a global networked society. But the industries will not change. That's why we need to take them down," he adds. The Pirate Bay co-founder hopes to finalize 13 Kopimashins for various exhibitions and plans to sell a few as well. In the meantime, he's continuing to 'bankrupt' poor Gnarls Barkley and his label. "The one running at my home is up to 120 million copies as we speak. That equals $150 million in losses to the recording industry – following their logic," Peter says.

PIRATE BAY FOUNDER BUILDS THE ULTIMATE PIRACY MACHINE [Ernesto/Torrentfreak]