Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde walks the plank
p2pnet news view P2P:- The Pirate Bay spokesman Peter Sunde says he’s had enough.
“The past years I’ve been very active in the discussion of the current state and the future states of the internets,” he blogs on Copy me happy, going on »»»
It’s an important cause and I will not give the fight up.
However, I have decided to not be the spokes person for The Pirate Bay anymore. The reasons are many but most importantly it takes too much of my time. I want to build something new and I want to focus my energy in a different direction. I have projects waiting to be finished, a book is waiting to be finalized and many more books are waiting to be read.
Our issues has been raised to another level and it’s time for biological dispersal. At the same time, I have a feeling of being sessile when I need to be the most motile creature ever. The regeneration will continue with me in another place.
Right now, “my current focus is on my new micro payment system Flattr and also a lot of work for a greener environment and better rights for people, not companies in our society,” he says, adding:
“Today marks the end of a small era for me, but I am simply leaving a role in order to be a person instead.”
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Copy me happy – Interlocked fibers, August 3, 2009
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August 3rd, 2009 at 3:49 pm
I am sad to say it is good riddance, the founders of TPB had a good idea when they started up, then they just like M$oft wanted their fingers in every little thing they could get their hands on. And as with M$oft quantity becomes the norm instead of quality. TPB is doing a lot of good ideas, but they are only half hearted until they come up with another idea they want to work on.
Lately is has been more talking the talk than walking the walk.
August 3rd, 2009 at 3:58 pm
What’s this with saying “internets” all the time? I mean christ, I know he’s not English and it’s not his native language, but “internet” is such a well-known word that someone really computer-literate like him should know how to spell it by now.
August 3rd, 2009 at 4:16 pm
I for one wish him rotsa ruck…..(hey if he can butcher english so can I)
Maybe its time they all (TPB 4) just faded away and grew up a little!
As far as I know, the only person who could stay in Neverland was Jacko!?!?
August 3rd, 2009 at 5:40 pm
Full respect – I’ve been hard on Peter in recent weeks, but that comes from my belief that he (and TPB) can do better than the rut they’ve recently fallen into. They pushed the envelope years ago, but fell into the trap of believing their own press/publicity spin and lost sight of reality. If they step back from this, digest the lessons, and start listening again instead of just talking (and, please, enough of the vaporware promises to do this and do that with no follow-up) we can expect to see more good things from them in the future.
This was Round 1 – right now it seems like the beginning and end of the world, to them. It’s not. They will look back on this in ten years’ time and, hopefully, see it as their first step into the big leagues. They all need some serious seasoning, and some experience with real-life pressure, before they try to operate at this level again. Hopefully, the know that as well and actively seek out those experiences so they can evolve into stronger and wiser community participants in the future.
August 3rd, 2009 at 6:08 pm
At this point it’s all just talk. If the TPB sale fails, he might very well continue on as spokesman. (and if the sale happens as planned, there’s no way he could possibly have continued anyway)
I seem to remember that Jon Newton announced a year or two ago that he was quitting P2Pnet, and that never happened. Sooo …………
August 3rd, 2009 at 8:11 pm
^^ Nope. I didn’t announce I was quitting. I thought I’d have to sell p2pnet because I didnlt have enough $$ to keep it going.
But I’m still here — although no one has offered me $9 million.
Cheers!
August 3rd, 2009 at 9:26 pm
I kind of feel sorry for TPB crew. They put a huge amount of time and effort into OUR cause. What did they get in return when they tried to move things forward and perhaps get some small reward for all that effort? The entire community stabbing the in the back. It takes big money to fight big money and they saw this even if nobody else could. I can’t say I’d blame any of them for giving up. Oh well. I fear the selfish and fickle nature of the file sharing community may ultimately hand victory over to the entertainment industry in the end. I’m certain they are in their boardrooms, laughing at us all right now.
August 4th, 2009 at 9:11 am
Why feel sorry for TPB ?
They set a fine example for young people it is better to steal copyrighted material then to legally purchase it at a retail outlet.
i donât give a rat’s ass about some poopy audio or video file either.
TPB also had also made a lot people quite angry in the computer program application world by having access to very expensive computer application programs for download that would have cost a fortune on a retail basis.
If i was a software developer i would not been very happy if people were ripping me of for hundreds of dollars for every downloaded pirated computer program.
The sky was the limit.
jerry rigged window sucks xp programâ¦â¦â¦..
I thought that was funny about the pirated xp program that didânt need a activation code or product key.