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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. He is an equality advocate and has expressed concerns over issues of centralization of power to the European Union in his blog. Sunde also participates in the Pirate Party of Finland and describes himself as a socialist. In April 2017, Sunde founded Njalla, a privacy oriented domain name registrar, Hosting facility and VPN provider.
Peter Sunde ran for European Parliament in 2014 election with the Pirate Party of Finland.
On 31 May 2014, just days after the EU elections and exactly eight years after the police raided The Pirate Bay servers, Sunde was arrested at a farm in Oxie, Malmö to serve his prison sentence for the Pirate Bay case. He was released five months later after having served two-thirds of his eight-month sentence.
The defendants' lawyers appealed to the Svea Court of Appeal together with a request for a retrial in the district court claiming bias on the part of judge Tomas Norström. The court ruled there was no bias and denied the request for a retrial.
On appeal, the jail sentences were reduced, but the damages increased.
The supreme court of Sweden subsequently refused to hear any further appeal.
The European Court of Human Rights also later rejected an appeal. "The European Court of Human Rights rejects Pirate Bay file-sharing appeal"
Segments of an interview with Sunde talking about copyright, the Internet, and culture are featured in the 2007 documentary Steal This Film and 2013 documentary TPB AFK.
The early days of The Pirate Bay, along with the trial, are the basis for the 2024 series The Pirate Bay, with the role of Peter Sunde played by actor Simon Gregor Carlsson. The series was broadcast on the SVT network, a public television network funded by Swedish taxpayers, modelled on the BBC.
After WikiLeaks' initial publication of the U.S. Diplomatic Cables, companies including Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and Moneybookers blocked donations and money transfers to the site. Flattr, however, continued allowing donations to WikiLeaks. Sunde commented "We Flattr think their work is exactly what is needed and if we can help just a little bit, we will."
On 5 April 2017, Adblock Plus publisher Eyeo GmbH announced that it had acquired Flattr for an undisclosed amount.
On 22 April 2015, the Hemlis team announced that they were discontinuing the development of the Hemlis messaging platform.
The following day, Sunde published the full description of the device and project at Konsthack as the first art project of the site's portfolio.
The machine has an LCD screen (as shown in the video) that calculates a running tally of the damages it has supposedly inflicted upon the record industry through its use, accordingly to what RIAA claims on their website. If RIAA's claims were valid, it also meant that the record industry would soon become bankrupt as a result of Kopimashin, a claim the project seeks to disprove with a physical example.
A few days later, Sunde told news site TorrentFreak that Kopimashin was created to "show the absurdity on the process of putting a value to a copy", and that "putting a price to a copy is futile."
A similar project called "Strata Kazika" was already launched by Polish activists in 2012.
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