“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?'”

Swedish-born Finnish-Norwegian entrepreneur and politician

Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi, known online as brokep, is a Swedish-born Finnish-Norwegian entrepreneur and politician. He is best known as a co-founder and former spokesperson for The Pirate Bay, the BitTorrent search engine. Sunde has also been active in equality advocacy and in the Pirate Party of Finland. He has described himself as a socialist, and has written about concerns over the concentration of power in the European Union. In 2017, he founded Njalla, a privacy-focused domain registrar, hosting provider, and VPN service.