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That’s the thing, it’s not about what will happen in the future it’s about what’s going on right now. He often gets questions about how a digitally bleak future could look like, but the truth is that we’re living it.Įverything has gone wrong. In Sunde’s opinion, people focus too much on what might happen, instead of what is happening. Forget about the future, the problem is now

TNW sat down with the pessimistic activist and controversial figure to discuss how screwed we actually are when it comes to decentralizing the internet. That was pretty much the core of Pirate Bay’s co-founder, Peter Sunde‘s talk at tech festival Brain Bar Budapest.

And the worst thing is that we can’t fix it - we can only make it slightly less awful. But the world sucks and we’ve continuously made it more and more centralized, taking power away from users and handing it over to big companies. At its inception, the internet was a beautifully idealistic and equal place.