Peter Sunde, also known by his online alias “brokep”, is a Swedish computer specialist, entrepreneur and politician who was one of the co-founders of The Pirate Bay, a BitTorrent search engine. He had also served as the spokesperson for the website for years. Along with co-founders Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm, and financier Carl Lundström, he was charged for assisting in copyright infringement and served months in jail, apart from sharing roughly $11 million debt "in solidarity" with the others. Over the years, he has been involved with several other ventures such as the micropayments system Flattr, the abandoned Hemlis messaging platform, the Kopimashin device, legal file-sharing site BayFiles and most recently Njalla, a privacy oriented domain name registrar. He has also been a candidate for the Pirate Party of Finland