Peter Sunde Quotes

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Peter Sunde

Profession : Businessman

Birth : September 13, 1978

Illegal downloading will exist forever - it can't be stopped, people don't want it to stop.

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Everybody has lost their digital privacy.

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

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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 you.

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Flattr Plus has nothing really to do with ad blocking.

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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.

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It's about removing the barriers between producers and consumers. I want to get rid of that mindset so that people realize in order to create, you have to participate.

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We need new voices, new people, new activists and new ideologies in the piracy scene.

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To be honest, it's not really hard to run a torrent site, or set one up.

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We're past the idea of putting price tags on things. We're going to put a price tag on access to things.

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I stay true to my word.

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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.

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The Pirate Bay was never for the money.

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As far as I know, no money ever won in a lawsuit by IFPI or the RIAA has even gone to any actual artist.

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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.

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The entertainment lobby has bullied Sweden around.

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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.

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I'll live with whatever sentence I'll get in the end - I'll just finish my book.

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We are four individuals on trial. But The Pirate Bay has its own life. It is not dependent on us as persons.

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We do this on our free time and because we think it is fun. But we do not have an obligation to feed content to organizations that knowingly try to distort what we are doing and portray us as crooks.

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