Pirate Bay co-founder Carl Lindstrom has died in a place crash at the age of 64.
The controversial Swedish businessman was killed when the small plane he was flying crashed in Slovenia, according to The Independent.
Lindstrom, a member of the far-right Alternative for Sweden party, was the only occupant of the plane.
He was reportedly traveling from Croatia to Switzerland when his plane crashed.
‘Lundstrom, a legend and veteran of Swedish nationalism, died in a on Monday,’ the party wrote on Facebook.
Officials said the plane likely crashed due to spatial disorientation in bad weather.
Lindstrom was one of the early financers of Pirate Bay, a file-sharing website founded in 2003 to allow users to skip copyright fees.
Pirate Bay co-founder Carl Lindstrom was killed in a plane crash in Slovenia
The Velika Planina mountain in the north of Slovenia, where the plane crashed Monday
Swedish authorities, however, raided its servers in 2006 and Lundstrom was among those charged with being an ‘accessory to breaching copyright law.’
Lundstrom and the other founders was sentenced to prison and fined as a result.
He only served four months, instead of a year, after filing a success appeal.
