The supporter of a controversial file-sharing website has been killed in a plane crash in Slovenia.
Carl Lundström, a Swedish entrepreneur and backer of The Pirate Bay, had taken off from Zagreb, Croatia, and was heading towards Zurich, Switzerland.
He was killed when the plane crashed right into a rural cabin within the mountains of Slovenia – the one passenger onboard the private plane on the time, in response to initial reports.
Lundström was also the heir to a Swedish ‘crispbread’ brand often known as Wasabröd.
He was backed The Pirate Bay from around 2003 to 2005, eventually serving time in prison for promoting copyright infringement with the controversial site.
Lundström served 4 months in prison for his involvement and paid a £2,441,162 nice.
In 2012, the UK banned the web site after a High Court ruling found the web site breaches copyright laws on a big scale.
The web site hasn’t been without its dangers, nonetheless.
In 2019, the positioning played host to a brand new strain of malware that was nicknamed the ‘Russian Doll’.
What’s The Pirate Bay, and why is it so controversial?
The Pirate Bay is an internet index of thousands and thousands of files – accessible to most individuals online.
It features movies, video games, pornography and more, gaining attention within the early 2000s for multiple copyright infringements.
It was founded in Sweden in 2003, and has been shut down multiple times – but has all the time made a return.
In 2014, Swedish police seized servers and computers from a server room in Stockholm.
It’s banned in some areas, including the UK.
Spotted by cybersecurity researchers at Kaspersky Labs, the illicit activity on the peer-to-peer site has led to this system being downloaded around 10,000 times and spreading fast.
Like its namesake, the Russian Doll malware unpacks itself once downloaded to put in adware and other programs on the victim’s computer, snarling it up and rendering it unusable.
The crisp brand Wasabröd is estimated to be value £3,698,525,160.
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