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Pirate Bay founder copies songs to /dev/null to bankrupt the music industry (arstechnica.com)
9 points by swatthatfly 3837 days ago
1 comments

Cute. But piracy does in fact hurt the company or person that created the content. It devalues it over time, almost like currency counterfeiting. It's worse than theft because it's pretty easy to account for simple theft, but nearly impossible when your actual product becomes nearly worthless.