This article was published on August 10, 2017

8 mildly (and crazy) interesting things we learned about Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde


8 mildly (and crazy) interesting things we learned about Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde

Every week we hold a TNW Answers AMA session to offer readers a chance to address their questions about the future of technology to the world’s most influential minds. This week we had the pleasure to host none other than entrepreneur and The Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde.

During the hour long session, the internet activist chimed in to answer over 80 questions from readers, delivering a series of quirky anecdotes and amusing tidbits in the meanwhile.

So without further ado, here are some of the most interesting things we learned about Sunde from our TNW Answers session today:

The Pirate Bay was started “for the lulz”

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You probably have never heard of the torrent sites he uses

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The last thing he torrented from The Pirate Bay was Suits

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He is working on his own sitcom titled The Entreprenerds

… but he would rather have people download it from a better torrent site than The Pirate Bay.

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This is what inspired his privacy-focused domain registration service

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He thinks Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will one day be president

… and also kind of compares him to Hitler.

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The funniest torrent he has ever seen on The Pirate Bay is…

… this Japanese video.

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He believes the solution to saving the internet is building it from the ground up

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For more answers from our session with Sunde, you can check out the full TNW Answers thread here.

Make sure to join us next week for our TNW Answers with Vitalik Buterin, founder of Ethereum! Start asking your questions here.

Peter Sunde is an entrepreneur and politician and he is best known for being a co-founder of Pirate Bay, the famous BitTorrent search engine. Peter has participated in the Pirate Party of Finland and currently working on a new venture called Njalla, a privacy-oriented domain name registrar. Peter has a Norwegian and Finnish ancestry and he is also a vegetarian.

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