Peter Sunde

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

“With the neutrality of the network being infringed with more and more laws against individual liberties and access to culture, we are taking away more benefits from people than what they are contributing.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The distrust of the political system is unhealthy.”

“Facebook is the biggest nation in the world and we have a dictator, if you look at it from a democracy standpoint. Mark Zuckerberg is a dictator.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Piracy is the majority of the Internet.”

“You should never tell people where they can't go or what they can't do.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Everything in my life has come from an urge to share. Everything I've learned is from friends, family and copying.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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