The Pirate Bay Co-Founder Dies in Plane Crash – Guido Fawkes

The Pirate Bay Co-Founder Dies in Plane Crash

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Swedish businessman Carl Lundstrom, one of the co-founders and early financial backers of legendary file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, has died after his light aircraft crashed in Slovenia. Millions of British kids enjoyed limitless free MP3s of Dr DRE and copies of Tomb Raider thanks in part to Lundstrom’s site…

Lundstrom was jailed for his role in setting up the copyright-dodging enterprise, but later released on appeal. He later joined Swedish nationalist party Alternative For Sweden. An early pioneer of the free internet, back in the days when Ofcom could only dream of regulating it…