Top 103 Quotes & Sayings by Peter Sunde - Page 2

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

I stay true to my word.

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.

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.

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 see Flattr as a natural extension of Pirate Bay.

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.

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

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

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.

Everybody has lost their digital privacy.

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.

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

The Pirate Bay was never for the money.

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.

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

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

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.

Flattr Plus has nothing really to do with ad blocking.

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

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.

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

People are obsessed with price tags.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Piracy is the majority of the Internet.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

All communication on today's networks are being monitored by government agencies and private companies.

Apple is going on the path to control computer use.

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.

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

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

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.

The prosecutor have a problem distinguishing from megabits and megabytes.

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.

Spread and participate in culture. Remix, reuse, use, abuse. Make sure no one controls your mind. Create new systems and technology that circumvent the corruption. Start a religion. Start your own nation, or buy one. Buy a bus. Crush it to pieces.