While most file sharers have made The Pirate Bay one of the most-used torrent websites, its intermittent presence online arguably signals that it is not in the same place as it used to be.

Meanwhile, a TPB co-founder has reportedly built a copy machine that churns out hundreds of illegal copies per second to show legitimate industries what he calls "the absurdity in the process of putting a value to a copy."

According to Torrent Freak, The Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde built the Kopimashin out of a Raspberry Pi, an LCD display, and a string of Python code. Sunde hopes to show the world that copies of a file do not endanger an industry at all.

This time, Sunde sampled the Kopimashin with the "Crazy" track from Gnarls Barkely, churning out 100 copies per second. According to the industry follower, this translates to roughly 8 million copies per day, and in terms of finances, about $10 million in losses. However, the "losses" are only temporary, as the creator developed the copy machine to translate copies into a null state, which means that copies are not permanently stored.

Sunde stated that this illustrates his point of the music industry, for example, attaching values to copies themselves. According to him, the copy process itself is not harmful to the industry and only reflects people's inherent drive to copy almost anything.

However, copying is tagged with financial "losses" only because it is in the industry's mindset to have profits, he said. Sunde added, "But following their rhetoric and mindset it will bankrupt them. I want to show with a physical example – that also is really beautiful in its own way – that putting a price to a copy is futile."

According to EnGadget, Sunde made the piracy machine not only as a personal statement. Apparently, the Kopimashin is part of an art project for Konsthack, a Swedish art exhibit for the digital space.