Peter Sunde Quotes

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Peter Sunde

Profession : Businessman

Birth : September 13, 1978

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

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No, the Pirate Bay is more like sugar - it's bad for you but you can't stop using it. Bad because you get sued for it.

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We've centralized all of our data to a guy called Mark Zuckerberg, who's basically the biggest dictator in the world as he wasn't elected by anyone.

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I would say we, as the people, kind of lost the Internet back to the capitalist society, which we were hoping to take it back from.

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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.

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I don't want to ride in a self driving car that can't drive me to a certain place because someone has bought or sold an illegal copy of something there.

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I see Flattr as a natural extension of Pirate Bay.

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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.

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People are obsessed with price tags.

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Apple is going on the path to control computer use.

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Piracy is not a threat, it's a need.

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Piracy is the majority of the Internet.

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

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Most of the people leaking movies or giving out movies are because they love the movies.

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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 would be much more sane for cultural advancement then extending copyrights.

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

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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.

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The 'solution' to file sharing was never centralizing content control back to a few entities - that was the struggle we were fighting for. Netflix, Spotify etc. are not a solution but a loss.

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SuprNova will be for the beginners. It's easier to use than most sites out there and we want everybody to be able to use it.

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