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Pirate Bay co-founder Carl Lundström has died

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Re: Pirate Bay co-founder Carl Lundström has died

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Post by GardenLetter27 »

He provided ISP services, he wasn't exactly a co-founder.

The TPB AFK documentary is quite good about the trial.

Crazy that they got harsher sentences than a lot of rapists in Sweden - like the guy who got only 14 months and then received ~$80k USD from the government: https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/dokument-och-lagar/dokument/skri...

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Post by dysoco »

ziddoap wrote: post #9
GrumpyNl wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We are getting older and so are your heroes. They just die.

This would be more applicable to death by natural causes, not death by plane accident.

This is true but also the longer you live the more people you get to recognize at least by name.

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Post by amelius »

tapeworm wrote: post #17

Just a reminder to everyone that The Pirate Bay was set up to facilitate copyright infringement on a large scale, depriving creators of significant earnings for their work. The involvement of anyone in this is both illegal and immoral. Something to consider before lauding Carl Lundström for his contribution. Also consider that he was a white supremacist and was deeply involved in far right politics. He was not a man…

If big companies keep stealing my personal information and say this is normal, then I don't mind big companies are being stolen data from.

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Post by daeken »

tapeworm wrote: post #17

Just a reminder to everyone that The Pirate Bay was set up to facilitate copyright infringement on a large scale, depriving creators of significant earnings for their work. The involvement of anyone in this is both illegal and immoral. Something to consider before lauding Carl Lundström for his contribution. Also consider that he was a white supremacist and was deeply involved in far right politics. He was not a man…

Piracy: not bad, unethical, or immoral.

White supremacy: very bad, unethical, and immoral.

Maybe reconsider your priorities here.

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Post by jorvi »

selectodude wrote: post #3
_mitterpach wrote: post #2

So many tragic plane incidents lately. Is there any reason for this increased occurence, or is it actually within normal margins?

Small planes like that crash all the time. You’re just hearing about it because we’re all on high alert - and in this circumstance, because the deceased has some fame.

Chartered (= small) planes crash sometimes. Helicopters crash a lot.

Big airline crashes are virtually non-existent, to the point where US airlines had 16 fatality-free years until this January, on 210 million flights. Flying commercially is mind-boggingly safe.

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Post by rtkwe »

bhouston wrote: post #26

Note to self, if I ever get rich fight the urge to get into flying. I don't know the stats off hand, but the number of people that die in small plane crashes seems quite high.

Commercial flying is quite safe but General Aviation is quite a bit more dangerous.
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