Peter Sunde
Is The Pirate Bay’s In-Browser Cryptocurrency Mining Better Than Its Crappy Ads?
Supporting websites through distributed crypto mining is only a good alternative to advertising if there is user consent.
Pirate Bay Founder Is Offering Anonymous Hosting to Fight Government Censorship
Peter Sunde is giving Catalan independence activists free, anonymous hosting and domain names to avoid Spanish government censorship.
Private Data Is the Ultimate Luxury Good
A line of jewelry co-created by the co-founder of The Pirate Bay aims to show why perceptions of value are outdated in the digital era.
We Spoke to the Founder of Pirate Bay About a Machine He’s Made to “Destroy” the Music Industry
Some pirates have no chill.
The Founder of the Pirate Bay Plans to "Bankrupt" the Music Industry with His New Art Project
His "Kopimashin" is designed to make 100 copies of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" every second, or about 8 million copies a day.
The Founder of Pirate Bay Is Copying 100 MP3s Per Second to Prove a Point
Peter Sunde's Kopimashin has created $150 million in losses that are purely theoretical.
How Did The Pirate Bay, the World’s Biggest Illegal Downloading Site, Stay Online for So Long?
By shutting down The Pirate Bay, the music industry has eliminated one of its biggest threats—for now.
Pirate Bay Is Still Online, Even Though All of Its Founders Are in Custody
Despite all three Pirate Bay founders being in custody, the torrent tracker had over 48 million connected users yesterday and shared nearly 7 million torrents.
The Beautiful Encryptor: Peter Sunde On His Spy-Proof Chat App Heml.is
With project Heml.is, which takes its name from the Swedish word for "secret," the Pirate Bay co-founder aims to bottle the power of encryption-based messaging into a user-friendly package.
Dodge the NSA with This Fancy Encrypted Messaging Service
With all the talk pinging back and forth around the interwebs in the ongoing NSA clusterfuck, there's a real surge in the demand for encryption-based messaging services. Heml.is is one such service founded by Peter Sunde, one of the creators of the...