Quotes from Peter Sunde

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Piracy is the majority of the Internet.

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

I see Flattr as a natural extension of Pirate Bay.

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.

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.

The Pirate Bay was never for the money.

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

So I think we should stop celebrating entrepreneurs and just celebrate innovation instead.

Even if I had any money I would rather burn everything I own and not even give them the ashes. They could have the job of picking them up. That's how much I hate the media industry.

Flattr Plus has nothing really to do with ad blocking.

Filesharing in Sweden can't get you into prison, so there's nothing criminal about helping people to fileshare.

In Sweden I am considered the Finnish-Norwegian, in Norway Finnish-Swedish, and in Finland Swedish-Norwegian. I've never really belonged anywhere.

The entertainment lobby has bullied Sweden around.

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.

We are quite sure the Pirate Bay is legal in Sweden.

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.