Quotes from Peter Sunde

The U.S. government is losing popularity every day in Europe, and people don't want to see us give in to them.

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.

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 haven't asked for any contributions, and I try to do things without using money - it feels more real and honest.

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

I started off copying disks on my computer when I was eight or nine.

For private use, filesharing and copying should be legal.

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

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.

Everybody has lost their digital privacy.

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

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.

Most people think that people hate me, but I haven't really met a lot of people that dislike me at all.

Copyright is not the thing that makes artists money, it's only for their brokers and distributors.

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

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?

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.

I think if someone sues Google, it will be very, very interesting.

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

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.

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.

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

Things like Digg, Twitter, etc., are really interesting because they remove the idea of the all-mighty producer and puts tools into the hands of everybody.

Most entrepreneurs, when they become successful, they turn into idiots... It's the same thing with rockstars and entrepreneurs: big money and big egos.