![]() ![]() MOTHERBOARD: Hey Peter, I was planning on asking you if things are going well, but you made it pretty clear that that isn't the case. The following interview has been edited for clarity and length. ![]() I wanted to speak with Sunde about the current state of the free and open internet, but this conversation quickly changed into an ideological exchange about society and capitalism-which is, according to Sunde, the real problem. After his time in jail he started blogging about the centralization of power by the European Union ran as a candidate for the Finnish Pirate Party during the elections to the European Parliament and founded Flattr, a micro donation system for software developers. Sunde was incarcerated in 2014 and released a year later. "Stop treating internet like it's a different thing and start focusing on what you actually want your society to look like." In 2009, the three founders were convicted of "assisting in copyright infringement" in a highly controversial trial. While it might look like torrenters are are still fighting this battle, Sunde claims that the reality is more definitive: "We have already lost."īack in 2003 Peter Sunde, together with Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm, started The Pirate Bay, a website that would become the biggest and most famous file-sharing website in the world. ![]()
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