Cory Doctorow 11:48 am Mon Oct 28, 2019
Pirate Bay cofounder Peter "brokep" Sunde has a new TV show about activism
The Activist is a new 5-part series from Peter Sunde (previously), AKA brokep, who cofounded The Pirate Bay and also founded Flattr.
Cory Doctorow 4:19 am Mon Nov 10, 2014
Pirate Bay and Flattr founder Peter "brokep" Sunde released from prison
He spent more than five months inside, having his reading material censored and having been denied adequate food, losing more than 15kg.
Cory Doctorow 6:00 pm Sun Aug 17, 2014
A prison visit with The Pirate Bay's Peter "brokep" Sunde
Julia Reda, a German Pirate Party MEP, was allowed to visit Sunde in a Swedish prison, and came away with a sad and important report on his tenure there, and his views on the future of the Internet and copyright.
Cory Doctorow 12:00 pm Sun Jun 1, 2014
Pirate Bay co-founder Peter "brokep" Sunde arrested in Sweden
Peter "brokep" Sunde, the Pirate Bay co-founder who also started Flattr and made a bid for the European Parliament on behalf of the Finnish Pirate Party, has been arrested in Sweden. Sunde — who is a friend of mine — had been working his way through a series of unsuccessful appeals to his conviction for his role in running the Pirate Bay, which included a €10M fine. — Read the rest
Cory Doctorow 4:00 pm Thu May 8, 2014
Peter "brokep" Sunde launches campaign for Finnish Pirate Party MEP
Peter Sunde, founder of Flattr and co-founder of The Pirate Bay, has launched his campaign for election to the European Parliament. Sunde — who is a friend of mine, and who has my endorsement — is standing for the Finnish Pirate Party.
Cory Doctorow 9:17 am Sun Jul 8, 2012
Peter "Brokep" Sunde, railroaded into Swedish prison by Big Content
Peter "Brokep" Sunde was convicted in Sweden's notorious Pirate Bay trial, and now faces prison time and a multimillion-euro fine. As his imprisonment looms, he describes, in detail, the bizarre circumstances of his conviction, which started with an illegal raid ordered by the US trade representative, continued with an investigation led by a prosecutor who'd already accepted a job with Warner Brothers as a copyright enforcer and was just working through his notice period as he pursued Peter; and then a trial that included a judge and multiple jurors who were literally getting paychecks from the large copyright industry associations. — Read the rest
Cory Doctorow 10:26 pm Fri Feb 10, 2012
brokep on the entertainment industry
Peter Sunde, the notorious and entrepreneurial "brokep" who co-founded the Pirate Bay, writes in Wired about his view on the entertainment industry's corruption and the cluelessness of the lawmakers who side with them: "Evidently, Warner Brothers felt that the investigation was taking too long. — Read the rest
Cory Doctorow 3:21 pm Tue Dec 22, 2015
Pirate Bay cofounder invents an infernal device that will utterly bankrupt the music industry
The record industry insists that all unauthorized copies represent lost sales. So Peter "brokep" Sunde, co-founder of The Pirate Bay, has built a machine that makes 100 copies per second of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy," storing them in /dev/null (which is to say, deleting them even as they're created).
Cory Doctorow 12:34 pm Fri Mar 21, 2014
Pirate Bay founder runs for MEP
Peter "brokep" Sunde, co-founder of the Pirate Bay and Flattr, a service that allows fans to pay artists, is running for the European Parliament on the Pirate Party ticket (what else?). If I lived in Finland, I'd vote for him without a second thought.
Cory Doctorow 12:02 pm Wed May 15, 2013
Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde is a candidate for Pirate Party MEP in Finland
Peter "brokep" Sunde — who co-founded The Pirate Bay and founded Flattr, a system for allowing fans to directly pay the artists they love — is standing for the European Parliament in Finland on behalf of the Finnish Pirate Party. Sunde was raised in Sweden, but has Finnish roots, and is able to run there. — Read the rest
Cory Doctorow 7:41 am Sat Dec 17, 2011
Everyday Swedes take over management of nation's Twitter account
The Swedish tourism agency has convinced the government to turn over management of the official national Swedish Twitter account to everyday Swedes, on a rotating basis, to show the world what a swell place full of swell people Sweden is. I want brokep to run the account for a week. — Read the rest
Cory Doctorow 6:54 am Mon Aug 30, 2010
Pirate Bay documentary raising money on Kickstarter
The Pirate Bay – Away From Keyboard is a documentary on the founding of The Pirate Bay raising money on Kickstarter. I kicked in some money after hearing about it from Peter "brokep" Sunde. The filmmakers have been shooting for two years and are looking for $25,000 to finish the film (they're over $22K as I type this): "This campaign starts exactly one month before the Court of Appeal hearings start in The Pirate Bay trial in Stockholm, Sweden. — Read the rest
Xeni Jardin 1:54 pm Wed Feb 10, 2010
Flattr: new micropayments system from Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde
Peter Sunde, whom you may know as one of the guys who created The Pirate Bay, is launching a new micropayment system called Flattr. Above, a video explaining how it works. "Many large streams will form a river."
Cory Doctorow 1:35 am Tue Jun 30, 2009
Pirate Bay to sell to private company, go legit (?) (!)
Kullin sez, "The publicly traded gaming company Global Gaming Factory X (GGF) has issued a press statement this morning that they will purchase the website the Pirate Bay and the company Peeralism that 'develops peerialistic solutions to transport and store data on the Internet'. — Read the rest
Cory Doctorow 10:28 pm Tue Feb 17, 2009
Steal This Film: Pirate Bay Trial edition
The creators of the Pirate Bay documentary "Steal This Film" have released footage from their next installment in honor of the trial of the Pirate Bay's founders (yesterday's hearings ended with a bang, when the prosecution dropped half the charges — the more serious half — after realizing they couldn't make the case stick). — Read the rest
Cory Doctorow 8:39 am Thu Jun 1, 2006
ThePirateBay vows to be back in "a day or two"
Yesterday, ThePirateBay, the notorious Swedish torrent tracker, was raided by Swedish police. The MPAA issued a crowing press-release that danced on ThePirateBay's grave.
Now ThePirateBay has updated its website, promising to be up, running and fully operational in "a day or two" and has vowed to move to another country if necessary. — Read the rest