Words matter. These are the best Peter Sunde Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
People are obsessed with price tags.
Traveling has turned into a sort of lifestyle, I suppose.
Most of the people leaking movies or giving out movies are because they love the movies.
For private use, filesharing and copying should be legal.
The U.S. government is losing popularity every day in Europe, and people don’t want to see us give in to them.
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.
When I was 9 years old I got my first computer, an Amiga 500.
I’d rather see us sponsor culture by pushing more money to music education, and facilities for your people to create music. It would be much more sane for cultural advancement then extending copyrights.
In Sweden I am considered the Finnish-Norwegian, in Norway Finnish-Swedish, and in Finland Swedish-Norwegian. I’ve never really belonged anywhere.
I’ll live with whatever sentence I’ll get in the end – I’ll just finish my book.
I don’t believe in the American dream anyway, becoming a billionaire and buying expensive cars.
As far as I know, no money ever won in a lawsuit by IFPI or the RIAA has even gone to any actual artist.
Copyright is not the thing that makes artists money, it’s only for their brokers and distributors.
I see Flattr as a natural extension of Pirate Bay.
We are quite sure the Pirate Bay is legal in Sweden.
I haven’t asked for any contributions, and I try to do things without using money – it feels more real and honest.
We need new voices, new people, new activists and new ideologies in the piracy scene.
If you have a more oppressed Internet, you have a more oppressed society.
I don’t care if the record labels survive. The music will survive anyhow.
The fight goes on with or without me, I’m just a pawn. But at least I’m a pawn on the morally right side.
So I think we should stop celebrating entrepreneurs and just celebrate innovation instead.
I think if someone sues Google, it will be very, very interesting.
I’m still waiting for the revolution against globalization in the rest of the world. The corruption that’s eating away our systems; the false belief that democracy exists; and this idea of democracy actually being ‘the solution’ at all.
It’s serious to actually be found guilty and get jail time. It’s really serious and a bit weird. But it’s so bizarre that we were convicted at all.
Of course I would have preferred to win in the Supreme Court as personal vindication and to vacate my sentence.
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.
In all honesty, the reason we did The Pirate Bay was to bring freedom and take back control from a centralized system.
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.
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.
The Pirate Bay was never for making people not pay, it was for making people free to choose what to share and who they want to share it with.
We are four individuals on trial. But The Pirate Bay has its own life. It is not dependent on us as persons.
Most people think that people hate me, but I haven’t really met a lot of people that dislike me at all.
We don’t create things anymore, instead we just have virtual things. Uber, Alibaba and Airbnb, for example, do they have products? No. We went from this product-based model, to virtual product, to virtually no product what so ever. This is the centralization process going on.
The distrust of the political system is unhealthy.
Non-commercial file sharing should of course become legal and protected, and must re-think copyright all together.
Pirate Bay gives you the opportunity to share information for free, but there is also a need for something where you can share money as well.
I would say that I admire people that come up with ideas we never thought of before.
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.
The feedback we get from users is very positive, but the businesses are very hateful towards us.
I started off copying disks on my computer when I was eight or nine.
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.
The Pirate Bay has its own trackers. We have more info on the torrents since people upload them to the site and describe them.
Apple is going on the path to control computer use.
I think the only solution is to have a lot of solutions.
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.
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.
My view of journalism is that it needs to be independent but it’s not independent when someone is paying the bills for you.
I’ve signed a few autographs.
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.
Everybody has lost their digital privacy.
The Internet is a decentralized network with unlimited sources of creativity.
We need a revolution instead of a technology evolution.
We see this in legislations such as SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, IPRED, IPRED2, TPP, TRIPS, just to name a few. All of these legislations have the same goal – make sure that the control of the Internets goes to the rich people that already have some sort of control outside of the Internets.
We all know how evolution works, except one industry that refuses to evolve: the entertainment industry. Instead of looking at evolution as something inevitable, the industry has made it their business to refuse and/or sue change, by any necessary means.
All communication on today’s networks are being monitored by government agencies and private companies.
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.
Mark Zuckerberg is a rich white dude from a really privileged background.
The solution for piracy is to redefine piracy. Make things possible for everyone, without being labelled it as a crime.
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 entertainment lobby has bullied Sweden around.
You should never tell people where they can’t go or what they can’t do.
Filesharing in Sweden can’t get you into prison, so there’s nothing criminal about helping people to fileshare.
I stay true to my word.
The reason for the real name policy is Mark Zuckerberg wants to make another dollar.
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.
