Pirate Bay says big revenue claims fabricated by prosecutors
Claims that The Pirate Bay is raking in more than $3 million are completely false, says Peter Sunde. He says…
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Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi (alias brokep) (born 13 September 1978 Uddevalla, Sweden) is a computer expert with Norwegian and Finnish roots. He is best known for being a co-founder and ex-spokesperson of The Pirate Bay, a BitTorrent search engine.
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. 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. Sunde speaks Swedish, Norwegian, English, Finnish and German.
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…
Claims that The Pirate Bay is raking in more than $3 million are completely false, says Peter Sunde. He says…