Quotes from Peter Sunde

People ask if I would have done anything different if I could. The answer is no.

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

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.

I've signed a few autographs.

The Pirate Bay has its own trackers. We have more info on the torrents since people upload them to the site and describe them.

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.

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.

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.

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

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?'

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

My view of journalism is that it needs to be independent but it's not independent when someone is paying the bills for you.

I don't care if the record labels survive. The music will survive anyhow.

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.

I'm a socialist. I know Marx and communism did not work before, but I think in the future you have the possibility of having total communism and equal access to everything for everybody.

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.

The solution for piracy is to redefine piracy. Make things possible for everyone, without being labelled it as a crime.

I'm still waiting for the revolution against globalization in the rest of the world. The corruption that's eating away our systems; the false belief that democracy exists; and this idea of democracy actually being 'the solution' at all.

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

A lot of people are giving up on politics and thinking they can solve issues with technology. These kind of arrogant behaviors towards the rest of the society are a bit disgusting.

You actually need to go somewhere and vote and make sure you don't have corrupt police. But there's a faith in technology as the savior, as the new Messiah, and that's definitely not the case.

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

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.

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.