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The co-founder and financial backer of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay, Carl Lundstrom, has died after a plane he was flying crashed in Northern Slovenia. Lundstrom was flying solo.<\/p>\n

The 64 year-old Lundstrom was, to put it mildly, a controversial figure with far-right political leanings and some extremely questionable associations. The Register once called him The Pirate Bay’s “neo-Nazi sugar daddy<\/a>” due to his links to various far-right and outright fascist groups. Lundstrom also had a sideline in Holocaust denial, claiming Nazi Germany did not set out to systematically murder concentration camp prisoners<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The news was first announced by the Alternative for Sweden party, for which Lundstrom was a candidate in the 2021 elections.<\/p>\n

“Lundstrom, a legend and veteran of Swedish nationalism, died in a plane crash on Monday,” reads the party’s statement (thanks, Metro<\/a>). “He was taking off in his Mooney M-20 from Zagreb en route to Zurich… but crashed in Slovenia.”<\/p>\n

The news was confirmed by journalist Christian Peterson, who called Lundstrom his “friend” and “one of [the] Swedish opposition’s most significant and fearless veterans.”<\/p>\n

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Reports say the plane split in two after crashing into a wooden cabin on the Velika Planina mountain in northern Slovenia on Monday. Rescue teams were not able to reach the scene until Tuesday due to bad weather.<\/p>\n

While Lundstrom’s status as a co-founder of The Pirate Bay is questioned by some (see the reaction on Hacker News<\/a>), it is undeniable that his considerable resources (Lundstrom was an heir to the billion-dollar Wasabr\u00f6d crisp bread empire) and company Rix Telecom were integral to the site’s early days.<\/p>\n

Lundstrom was one of those charged in a Swedish copyright trial and part of the so-called “Pirate Bay Four<\/a>.” He was found guilty, sentenced to prison and fined in 2009, though his custodial sentence was reduced to four months on appeal.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n

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The co-founder and financial backer of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay, Carl Lundstrom, has died after a plane he was flying crashed in Northern Slovenia. Lundstrom was flying solo. The 64 year-old Lundstrom was, to put it mildly, a controversial figure with far-right political leanings and some extremely questionable associations. The Register once called him The Pirate Bay’s “neo-Nazi sugar daddy” due to his links to various far-right and outright fascist groups. Lundstrom also had a sideline in Holocaust denial, claiming Nazi Germany did not set out to systematically murder concentration camp prisoners. The news was first announced by the Alternative for Sweden party, for which Lundstrom was a candidate in the 2021 elections. “Lundstrom, a legend and veteran of Swedish nationalism, died in a…<\/p>\n

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