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Peter Sunde

(1978) Computer Scientist

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Peter Sunde is a computer scientist.

Quick Facts About Peter Sunde

Born: September 13, 1978
Profession: Computer Scientist

About Peter Sunde

Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi, alias brokep, is a Swedish-born Finnish-Norwegian entrepreneur and politician. He is best known for being a co-founder and ex-spokesperson of The Pirate Bay, a BitTorrent search engine. He is an equality advocate and has expressed concerns over issues of centralization of power to the European Union in his blog. Sunde also participates in the Pirate Party of Finland and describes himself as a socialist. In April 2017, Sunde founded Njalla, a privacy oriented domain name registrar, hosting provider and VPN provider.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Peter Sunde · Page 3

I would say we, as the people, kind of lost the Internet back to the capitalist society, which we were hoping to…

Internet

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If you have a more oppressed Internet, you have a more oppressed society.

Internet

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I've been a member of the Swedish Green Party at the same time as the Swedish Socialist Party. Both are very progressive…

Always

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I think if someone sues Google, it will be very, very interesting.

Google

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Like most people who go to prison for an unfair thing, we become more persuaded in our own beliefs.

Faith

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I mostly eat lettuce.

Eat

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Most entrepreneurs, when they become successful, they turn into idiots... It's the same thing with rockstars and entrepreneurs: big money and big…

Big

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Non-commercial file sharing should of course become legal and protected, and must re-think copyright all together.

Copyright

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Things like Digg, Twitter, etc., are really interesting because they remove the idea of the all-mighty producer and puts tools into the…

Everybody

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My view of journalism is that it needs to be independent but it's not independent when someone is paying the bills for…

Independent

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The U.S. government is losing popularity every day in Europe, and people don't want to see us give in to them.

Day

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When I was 9 years old I got my first computer, an Amiga 500.

Computer

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I see Flattr as a natural extension of Pirate Bay.

Extension

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Finland actually made Internet access a human right a while back. That was a clever thing of Finland. But that's like the…

Country

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I'm still waiting for the revolution against globalization in the rest of the world. The corruption that's eating away our systems; the…

Corruption

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Most people think that people hate me, but I haven't really met a lot of people that dislike me at all.

Hate

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In all honesty, the reason we did The Pirate Bay was to bring freedom and take back control from a centralized system.

Back

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I actually hate being called an entrepreneur.

Actually

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Not everything people do is good - people make Coca Cola and some people want it and some people don't, but we…

Coca cola

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Copyright is not the thing that makes artists money, it's only for their brokers and distributors.

Art

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If you're not the right kind of person, society won't give you the help you need.

Help

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The Pirate Bay was never for the money.

Bay

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I think the only solution is to have a lot of solutions.

I think

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I'd rather see us sponsor culture by pushing more money to music education, and facilities for your people to create music. It…

Create

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People ask if I would have done anything different if I could. The answer is no.

Answer

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