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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 marcusverus »

dagw wrote: post #40
akimbostrawman wrote: post #12

RIP. He might have only been a backer but he helped pave the way for P2P torrenting getting mainstream attention and eternally pissing off the content mafia in true hacker spirit.

Do you consider using your inherited wealth to bankroll white nationalist political candidates also part of the "true hacker spirit". Carl may have been part of TPB for a small part of his life, but his true life long passion and calling was always first and foremost to be a dedicated and passionate white nationalist.

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Re: Pirate Bay co-founder Carl Lundström has died

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Post by timkam »

marcusverus wrote: post #61
dagw wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you consider using your inherited wealth to bankroll white nationalist political candidates also part of the "true hacker spirit". Carl may have been part of TPB for a small part of his life, but his true life long passion and calling was always first and foremost to be a dedicated and passionate white nationalist.

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The historic reality begs to differ: Sweden covers large parts of the traditional homelands of non-Swedish people. Current reality differs as well, obviously. No matter how you twist it and turn it, the argument can only make sense for a hypothetical, geographically smaller Sweden that does not exist.

Re: Pirate Bay co-founder Carl Lundström has died

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Post by dagw »

rtkwe wrote: post #39
antiracist wrote: post #32

Essential reading for anyone curious about Carl Lundström's life outside of bankrolling The Pirate Bay: https://www.theregister.com/2012/09/21/pirate_bay_fascist_ba... https://www.theregister.com/2009/02/26/pirate_bay_neo_nazi > Lundström was linked to a gang of skinheads that attacked Latin American tourists in Stockholm in the mid-1980s. Over the years, Lundström has switched his support from Keep Sweden Swedish to…

Glad he accidentally did at least one half-decent thing with his money once. Wonder what his reason was for it, it's not a stance I'd expect from someone with his political leanings.

Wonder what his reason was for it

Initially almost certainly money. He had a history of being an entrepreneur and investor involved in all kinds of random businesses. Back when he first got involved with TPB, what they were doing (just hosting torrent links) wasn't technically illegal in Sweden, and he probably figured that getting shares in what had potential to become a massive web site in return for offering free hosting at the ISP he ran was a really good deal.

Of course his official story was that he wasn't really involved, he mostly just let one of his employees host this side project for free on a server at the ISP he ran. And once his politics became known, the official line from the other TPB founders was that he had never had anything to do with TPB, he just happened to own the ISP where they happened to be hosting.

There is also a story that his company had been heavily fined by the BSA over some software licensing and that he was pissed off at them and saw this as a way of getting revenge.

Re: Pirate Bay co-founder Carl Lundström has died

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Post by dharmab »

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.

It's an open secret, borderline meme in the General Aviation community about rich plane owners being overconfident and impatient, resulting in flying into poor weather conditions and getting into trouble.

https://www.faa.gov/media/19371 "get-there-itis"

Re: Pirate Bay co-founder Carl Lundström has died

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Post by threatofrain »

chimeracoder wrote: post #51
dagw wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you think Carl's life long political activism outside of hosting TPB should be taken into account when deciding whether to compare him Aaron Swartz or not? Or do you think that his actions with TPB where so noble and important that it outweighs anything else he might have done before and after?

> Do you think Carl's life long political activism outside of hosting TPB should be taken into account when deciding whether to compare him Aaron Swartz or not? Or do you think that his actions with TPB where so noble and important that it outweighs anything else he might have done before and after? Another question to add to that list: Do you think that the rest of Aaron Swartz's life work was so inconsequential com…

Aaron Swartz is so young there is really nothing much to say about him. This guy lived basically 3x of Aaron's lifetime.

Re: Pirate Bay co-founder Carl Lundström has died

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Post by chimeracoder »

threatofrain wrote: post #67
chimeracoder wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Do you think Carl's life long political activism outside of hosting TPB should be taken into account when deciding whether to compare him Aaron Swartz or not? Or do you think that his actions with TPB where so noble and important that it outweighs anything else he might have done before and after? Another question to add to that list: Do you think that the rest of Aaron Swartz's life work was so inconsequential com…

Aaron Swartz is so young there is really nothing much to say about him. This guy lived basically 3x of Aaron's lifetime.

> Aaron Swartz is so young there is really nothing much to say about him.

This is absolutely insulting, given how clear he Aaron Swartz was about his beliefs from a young age and how much he accomplished in effecting them before he died.

> This guy lived basically 3x of Aaron's lifetime.

I have no idea what this is supposed to imply.

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