Peter Sunde Quotes

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Peter Sunde

Profession : Businessman

Birth : September 13, 1978

We need a revolution instead of a technology evolution.

Peter Sunde

I would say that I admire people that come up with ideas we never thought of before.

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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?'

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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.

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

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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.

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Traveling has turned into a sort of lifestyle, I suppose.

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I don't believe in the American dream anyway, becoming a billionaire and buying expensive cars.

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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.

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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?

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Mark Zuckerberg is a rich white dude from a really privileged background.

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The reason for the real name policy is Mark Zuckerberg wants to make another dollar.

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I want to show the absurdity on the process of putting a value to a copy.

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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.

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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.

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If we were making millions, we wouldn't have day jobs.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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