Peter Sunde

Swedish Web-site operator

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Peter Sunde is a Swedish web site operator known for co-founding The Pirate Bay, a popular file-sharing website established in 2003 by a Swedish anti-copyright group. The Pirate Bay utilizes the BitTorrent protocol to distribute large files like movies and games. While the site itself does not host files, it provides information on where to find them, which are distributed among users. Sunde, along with other operators, was convicted of copyright infringement and sentenced to prison, though his sentence was later reduced upon appeal. Despite legal challenges and temporary shutdowns, The Pirate Bay remains active.12

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The Pirate Bay
…Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, and Peter Sunde, and businessman Carl Lundström, who had supplied servers and bandwidth to the site, were charged with copyright infringement, and in April 2009 they were sentenced to one year in prison and the payment of a fine of 30 million kronor ($3.6 million). In…
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…Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, and Peter Sunde, and businessman Carl Lundström, who had supplied servers and bandwidth to the site, were charged with copyright infringement, and in April 2009 they were sentenced to one year in prison and the payment of a fine of 30 million kronor ($3.6 million). In…
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