Peter Sunde / The Copyfight
Peter Sunde is a Berlin-based Swedish IT expert best known for co-founding The Pirate Bay, a BitTorrent tracker site...
... the nemesis of copyright and arch-enemy of the music, film, television and software industries. He deals with questions regarding "immaterial rights." Peter's interests include environmental and human rights issues. He is also a techno/house DJ. In 2008, The Pirate Bay operators were charged with "assisting [others in] copyright infringement". In 2009, Sunde and his co-defendants were found to be guilty of "assisting in making copyright content available" in the Stockholm district court. Each defendant was sentenced to one year in prison and ordered to pay damages of 30 million SEK (approximately €2,740,900), to be apportioned between the four defendants. The defendants' lawyers have appealed to the Svea Court of Appeal together with a request for a retrial in the district court because of the recent suspicion of bias on behalf of the judge. Under Swedish law, the verdict is not effective until all appeals have been processed.
Sunde is currently working on the Flattr project, a micropayment system - more specifically, a microdonation system - which enables viewers of websites to make small donations by clicking a "Flattr this" button.
