Carl Lundstrom, a heir to Swedish crunchy bread, funded by Pirate Bay, a infamous file sharing service that was popular in the mid-2000s, died on Monday in a small plane crash in Slovenia, according to the alternative to Sweden, the Uglje right-hand party he supported.
Mr. Lundstrom, 64, was a pilot and the only tenant of the aircraft, Mooney M20, who removed from Zagreb, the Croatian capital, and was on his way to Zurich, the UU party said statement.
Air traffic controllers reported that they lost contact with a plane in the mountainous area of the Greater Mountain in North Slovenia, According to the Slovenian police.
Extremely bad weather made it easier for rescuers to use helicopters, forcing them to take the gondola and then walk on foot to reach the scene of a remote collision, police said. They discovered pieces of aircraft located in a wooden hut, which was practically halfway through, police said.
Later, the body was found in the middle of the ruins, said the police, who added that the cause of the collision was not determined.
Mr. Lundstrom was the grandson of the founder of the Swedish brand of the Wasabröd crispy bread and the successor to Fortune, according to the reports of Swedish media.
He was a Pirate Bay financier, which was founded in Sweden in 2003 and became one of the biggest so-called Bit Torrent Trackers, which allow customers to download large digital files by registering the help of other computers.
It was once estimated that Pirate Bay, who gave relationships to thousands of songs, films and video games, more than 20 million users.
Industry groups such as film paintings have accused the place of making the submission of the copyright law, and Swedish prosecutors have taken action.
In 2008, they charged Mr. Lundstr and three websites founders to facilitate copyright violations by helping users to take over music, films and other material protected by copyright.
The trial of Pirate Bay took place in the middle of the atmosphere similar to Carnival in Stockholm, and the bands played outside the courtroom and bloggers who document each step of the proceedings.
Mr. Lundstrom and his co -defendants, Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Peter Sunde, claimed that they did not violate the author’s rights because they were not really hosting materials protected by copyright rights on their own servers.
During the trial, the prosecutor tried to tie Mr. Lundstr to Pirate Bay as a “co -owner”, but testified that he only sold hosting and internet services to the website operators, Wired Magazine reported 2009.
Mr. Lundstrom admitted that giving moral support and sympathy of operator Pirate Bay, Wired reported, but said he did not become their business partner, considering that the potential potential was legally risky.
Swedish court Convicted Mr. Lundstr and his co -defendants in 2009 and sentenced them to a year in prison.
They were also ordered to pay 30 million crowns or about $ 3.6 million at the time, in compensation by leading entertaining companies, including Warner Brothers, Sony Music Entertainment, EMI and Columbia Pictures.
Appeal court later supported beliefs Mr. Lundstrom, Mr. Nei and Mr. Sunde, but reduced their penalties to four and 10 months and increased the amount they had to pay for the damage to 46 million crowns, or about $ 6.5 million at that time.
Mr. Warg did not participate in the appeal, citing the disease.
The verdict was a major victory for the entertainment industry in its campaign for suppressing internet piracy on web locations like Napster, which became extremely popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
“We are not victorious,” said John Kennedy, Executive Director of the International Federation of Phonographic Industry, after Mr. Lundstr and his co -defendants were convicted. “But we are pleased that the court obviously said that what they do is wrong.”
In addition to his role in the Gulf of Gusar, Mr. Lundstrom was a longtime supporter of right -wing causes in Sweden. He helped the movement against refugees to settle in Sjöbo, a city on the southern peak of Sweden, in the late 1980s, an alternative to Sweden said in her statement.
When an alternative to the Swedish, anti -migrant party was formed in 2018, Mr. Lundstrom joined the district manager and then as an unsuccessful candidate for duty, the party said.
This called him “Legend and Veterans of Swedish Nationalism.”
But Mr. Lundstrom was better known for his role in the Gulf of Gusar, said Mikael Sundstrom, a senior lecturer at the Department of Political Science at Lund University in Sweden.
“Lundstrom’s open political life spent in extreme right circles, but with a limited influence,” he said in the email.
