Peter Sunde

Peter Sunde
Sunde in 2009
Born
Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi

(1978-09-13) 13 September 1978 (age 46)
Other namesbrokep
Occupation(s)Politician, spokesperson
Known forCo-founder of The Pirate Bay
Founder of Flattr
Co-founder of Kvittar
Co-founder of IPredator
Founder of Njalla
Political partyPirate

Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi (born 13 September 1978), alias brokep, is a Swedish entrepreneur and politician. He is best known for being a co-founder and ex-spokesperson of The Pirate Bay, a BitTorrent search engine.[1] He is an equality advocate and has expressed concerns over issues of centralization of power to the European Union in his blog.[2] Sunde also participates in the Pirate Party of Finland and describes himself as a socialist.[3] In April 2017, Sunde founded Njalla, a privacy oriented domain name registrar, hosting provider and VPN provider.[4]

  1. ^ Thorkildsen, Joakim (31 January 2008). "Norske Peter tiltalt i The Pirate Bay-saken". Dagbladet (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 15 May 2016. Retrieved 29 June 2008.
  2. ^ "EUP 2014 – Copy me happy". blog.brokep.com. Archived from the original on 21 May 2018. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
  3. ^ Mollen, Joost (11 December 2015). "Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde: I have given up". Motherboard. Archived from the original on 17 May 2024. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
  4. ^ "Pirate Bay Founder Launches Anonymous Domain Registration Service – TorrentFreak". TorrentFreak. 19 April 2017. Archived from the original on 17 May 2024. Retrieved 21 April 2017.