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 into a rural cabin in the mountains of Slovenia – the only passenger onboard the private plane at the time, according to initial reports.
Lundström was also the heir to a Swedish ‘crispbread’ brand 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 four months in prison for his involvement and paid a £2,441,162 fine.
The rural cabin was split into two when the plane crashed (Picture: STA)
Lundström was a backer of the site and heir to a crisp brand (Picture: The Spectrial)
The propeller plane was being operated solely by Lundstrom (Picture: STA)
In 2012, the UK banned the website after a High Court ruling found the website breaches copyright laws on a large scale.
The website hasn’t been without its dangers, however.
In 2019, the site played host to a new strain of malware that was nicknamed the ‘Russian Doll’.
Spotted by cybersecurity researchers at Kaspersky Labs, the illicit activity on the peer-to-peer site has led to the program being downloaded around 10,000 times and spreading fast.
Like its namesake, the Russian Doll malware unpacks itself once downloaded to install adware and other programs on the victim’s computer, snarling it up and rendering it unusable.
The crisp brand Wasabröd is estimated to be worth £3,698,525,160.
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