Peter Sunde
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 Sunde at The Pirate Bay trial |
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| Born | Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi 13 September 1978 Uddevalla, Sweden |
| Nationality | Norwegian-Finnish |
| Other names | brokep |
| Known for | Co-founder of The Pirate Bay Founder of Flattr Co-founder of Kvittar Co-founder of IPREDator |
Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi (alias brokep) (born 13 September 1978 Uddevalla, Sweden) is an IT expert with Norwegian and Finnish roots.[1][2] He is best known for being a co-founder and ex-spokesperson of The Pirate Bay, a BitTorrent search engine.[3]
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[edit] Personal life
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Before the founding of the Pirate Bay Sunde worked for a large German medical company. In 2003 he became a member of Sweden's Piratbyrån (The Pirate Bureau) and a few months later Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm started The Pirate Bay with Sunde as the spokesperson.[4] He remained The Pirate Bay's spokesperson until late 2009 (three years after the ownership of the site transferred to Reservella). In August 2011 Sunde and, fellow Pirate Bay co-founder, Fredrik Neij launched file-sharing site Bayfiles, that aims to "legally" share.[5] Sunde speaks Swedish, Norwegian, English, Finnish and German. He is a vegan.[6]
[edit] The Pirate Bay Trial
On 31 January 2008, The Pirate Bay operators - Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundström (CEO of The Pirate Bay's former ISP) - were charged with "assisting [others in] copyright infringement".[7] The trial began on 16 February 2009. On 17 April 2009, Sunde and his co-defendants were found to be guilty of "assisting in making copyright content available" in the Stockholm district court (tingsrätt). Each defendant was sentenced to one year in prison and ordered to pay damages of 30 million SEK (approximately €2,740,900 or US$3,620,000), to be apportioned between the four defendants.[8] After the verdict a press conference was held where Sunde held up a handwritten IOU statement claiming that is all the damages he will pay, adding "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."[9] The defendants lawyers have appealed to the Svea Court of Appeal together with a request for a retrial in the district court because of the recent suspicion of bias on behalf of judge Tomas Norström.[10] Under Swedish law, the verdict is not effective until all appeals have been processed.
Segments of an interview with Sunde talking about copyright, the Internet, and culture are featured in the 2007 documentary Steal This Film.
[edit] Flattr
Flattr is a micropayments system started by Peter Sunde and Linus Olsson, which enables viewers of websites to make small donations by clicking a "Flattr this" button. At the time of the projects's announcement in February 2010, Sunde explained that "the money you pay each month will be spread evenly among the buttons you click in a month. We want to encourage people to share money as well as content."[11] Flattr itself takes a 10 percent fee from the user's monthly flatrate.
After Wikileaks initial publication of the U.S. Diplomatic Cables companies like Visa, MasterCard, Paypal and Moneybookers blocked donations and money transfer to the site. Flattr, however, continued allowing donations to Wikileaks. Sunde commented "We [Flattr] think their work is exactly what is needed and if we can help just a little bit, we will."[12]
[edit] References
- ^ Kuprijanko, Alexander (2009-02-07). "Jag känner inte att jag gör något fel" (in Swedish). Sydsvenskan. http://sydsvenskan.se/kultur-och-nojen/article411399/Jag-kanner-inte-att-jag-gor-nagot-fel.html.
- ^ Waters, Darren (16 April 2009). "Countdown to Pirate Bay verdict". BBC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8002171.stm. Retrieved 20 April 2009.
- ^ Thorkildsen, Joakim (2008-01-31). "Norske Peter tiltalt i The Pirate Bay-saken" (in Norwegian). Dagbladet. http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2008/01/31/525530.html. Retrieved 2008-06-29.
- ^ "Pirate Bay’s Founding Group ‘Piratbyrån’ Disbands". TorrentFreak. 2010-06-23. http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bays-founding-group-piratbyran-disbands-100623/. Retrieved 2012-02-03.
- ^ "Pirate Bay Founders Launch "Legal" File-Sharing Site". Tomsguide.com. 2011-08-31. http://www.tomsguide.com/us/The-Pirate-Bay-Bayfiles-Dropbox-Peter-Sunde-Fredrik-Neij,news-12362.html. Retrieved 2012-02-03.
- ^ Pirate Bay Crew Chums Up to Foes Over Lunch, Privacy Digest. 19 February 2009, retrieved 30 April 2009.
- ^ "Pirate Bay Future Uncertain After Operators Busted"
- ^ "The Pirate Bay Trial: Official Verdict - Guilty"
- ^ Kiss, Jemima (17 April 2009). "Pirate Bay defendant: we can't and won't pay". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/apr/17/pirate-bay-verdict-peter-sunder-kolmisoppi-online-press-conference.
- ^ "Pirate Bay lawyer calls for retrial". The Local. 2009-04-23. http://www.thelocal.se/19028/20090423/.
- ^ "Pirate boss to make the web pay". BBC News. 12 February 2010. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8512263.stm. Retrieved 22 May 2010.
- ^ August 23, 2010 (2010-08-23). "Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi : Kevin Trudeau Show". Ktradionetwork.com. http://www.ktradionetwork.com/tag/peter-sunde-kolmisoppi/. Retrieved 2012-02-03.
[edit] External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Peter Sunde |
- Personal Blog
- Peter Sunde on Twitter
- The Story Of The Pirate Bay (Swedish)
- "It’s Evolution, Stupid" Peter Sunde (Co-Founder, The Pirate Bay) - Wired, Column (02/10/2012) (English).
