Rick Falkvinge Biography

Rickard Rick Falkvinge is a Swedish IT serial entrepreneur who founded the Swedish Pirate Party and served as its first leader. He is presently working for the party as a political evangelist, propagating the party's beliefs all over the world. Rick Falkvinge began considering forming a political party focusing on file sharing, copyright, and patents in the fall of 2005. The Pirate Bureau, which was not linked with any political party, was the dominant Swedish group in the copyright dispute at the time. Falkvinge registered the domain name piratpartiet.se on December 16, 2005, and the party's website was launched on January 1, 2006, through a message on a Direct Connect hub, indicating the start of the petition to form a new political party in Sweden. The site had three million hits in the first two days, according to the party, and the daily Dagens Industri published a note about the project on the morning of January 2nd, followed by a fuller item in the tabloid Aftonbladet after lunch. Falkvinge took out a big bank loan, resigned his position at Cypak, and dedicated himself full-time to the development of the Pirate Party.

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