Mr. Lundstrom was a supporter of far-right causes and, at one point, an unsuccessful candidate for office. He was convicted of aiding copyright infringement in 2009.

The co-founder and financial backer of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay, Carl Lundstrom, has died after a plane he was flying crashed in Northern Slovenia. Lundstrom was flying solo.

Carl Lundström, the Swedish businessman and early financial backer of The Pirate Bay, tragically lost his life in a plane crash while piloting his Piper Mooney Ovation M20R. Lundström, 64, was flying from Zagreb, Croatia, to Zurich, Switzerland, when his aircraft crashed into a wooden cabin in the Velika Planina mountains of northern Slovenia.

Carl Lundstrom, the co-founder and early financial backer of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay, died after a small plane he was flying crashed in the Slovenian mountains.