Peter Sunde
All communication on today's networks are being monitored by government agencies and private companies.Collection: Communication
Copyright is not the thing that makes artists money, it's only for their brokers and distributors.
We're just a general-purpose search engine and torrent-tracking system. You can put whatever you want on the Pirate Bay. We don't participate in how the people communicate with each other. We only participate in bringing the possibility to communicate and share files.
In a way, owing a hundred million is easier than a hundred thousand, because you stop imagining that you will ever be able to pay the money back.
Every time anyone did an advertisement on The Pirate Bay they would get a call from the record or movie industry saying they'll sue them for financially assisting with a crime.
The Pirate Bay was never for the money.
In all honesty, the reason we did The Pirate Bay was to bring freedom and take back control from a centralized system.
I see Flattr as a natural extension of Pirate Bay.
I've been distilled to this computer nerd.
People ask if I would have done anything different if I could. The answer is no.
I mostly eat lettuce.
I've signed a few autographs.
Facebook brings the Internet to Africa and poor countries, but they're only giving limited access to their own services and make money off of poor people. And getting government grants to do that, because they do PR well.
Finland actually made Internet access a human right a while back. That was a clever thing of Finland. But that's like the only positive thing I have seen in any country anywhere in the world regarding the Internet.
If you have a more oppressed Internet, you have a more oppressed society.
I'm a socialist. I know Marx and communism did not work before, but I think in the future you have the possibility of having total communism and equal access to everything for everybody.
The feedback we get from users is very positive, but the businesses are very hateful towards us.
Filesharing in Sweden can't get you into prison, so there's nothing criminal about helping people to fileshare.
For private use, filesharing and copying should be legal.
I don't care if the record labels survive. The music will survive anyhow.
A lot of people are giving up on politics and thinking they can solve issues with technology. These kind of arrogant behaviors towards the rest of the society are a bit disgusting.
The distrust of the political system is unhealthy.
We need a revolution instead of a technology evolution.
You actually need to go somewhere and vote and make sure you don't have corrupt police. But there's a faith in technology as the savior, as the new Messiah, and that's definitely not the case.
I would say that I admire people that come up with ideas we never thought of before.
Things like Digg, Twitter, etc., are really interesting because they remove the idea of the all-mighty producer and puts tools into the hands of everybody.
The old saying 'If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it - Does it still make a sound?' can be adapted to: 'If someone does something interesting on the Internet and nobody is around to talk about it - Did it still make an impact?'
I think that we need to take care of the Internet itself right now, in order to permit it to be an important part of everyday life in the future as well.
If you're not the right kind of person, society won't give you the help you need.
Traveling has turned into a sort of lifestyle, I suppose.
I don't believe in the American dream anyway, becoming a billionaire and buying expensive cars.
I'm not on Facebook but there are a lot of drawbacks in my offline world. No party invitations, no updates from my friends, people stop talking to you, because you're not on Facebook. So it has real life implications.
If we say Facebook doesn't agree with our rules in our country we are going to stop Facebook in our country. We censor a lot of things, why not censor Facebook?
Mark Zuckerberg is a rich white dude from a really privileged background.
The reason for the real name policy is Mark Zuckerberg wants to make another dollar.
I want to show the absurdity on the process of putting a value to a copy.
The Pirate Bay is not in Sweden. It's a distributed system. We don't know where the servers are. We gave them to people we trust and they don't know it's The Pirate Bay.
If we were making millions, we wouldn't have day jobs.
Facebook is the biggest nation in the world and we have a dictator, if you look at it from a democracy standpoint. Mark Zuckerberg is a dictator.
The most ironic thing is that The Pirate Bay's enemies include not just the U.S. government but also many European and the Russian one.
In the beginning, it was technology, and it was fun, and then it turned to politics, and it's been changing so many people's lives. We didn't realize that to begin with.
The solution for piracy is to redefine piracy. Make things possible for everyone, without being labelled it as a crime.
With the neutrality of the network being infringed with more and more laws against individual liberties and access to culture, we are taking away more benefits from people than what they are contributing.
In Sweden I am considered the Finnish-Norwegian, in Norway Finnish-Swedish, and in Finland Swedish-Norwegian. I've never really belonged anywhere.
The U.S. government is losing popularity every day in Europe, and people don't want to see us give in to them.
I started off copying disks on my computer when I was eight or nine.
You should never tell people where they can't go or what they can't do.
I've been a member of the Swedish Green Party at the same time as the Swedish Socialist Party. Both are very progressive parties, though they're not always in sync with their other European counterparts.
I haven't asked for any contributions, and I try to do things without using money - it feels more real and honest.
Most people think that people hate me, but I haven't really met a lot of people that dislike me at all.