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They also build "Bevismaskinen", which was a website that could generate incriminating evidence of any ip illegal downloading any file, by virtue of a screenshot of a torrent or limewire download.

Such screenshots (presumably taken of an actual download) were used by RIAA as evidence that someone was illegal downloading music and used in million dollar court cases.

I love it when art is used to point to the absurdity of some social or legal absurdity.

Another example is Linus Åkesson's http://www.linusakesson.net/pages/binart.php

Some context about the motivation for the project, https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-founder-builds-the-ultim...

Showing once again the absurdity of copyright laws

The premise of "the literal act of copy+pasting a file is a lost sale!" is farcical, yes.

If a record label tried that in court, this would be a well-deserved jab at that specific fallacy.

However, it would be an equally farcical strawman to claim this piece has anything to say about copyright in general.

This is very promising.

The Kopimashin (2015)