About Rickard Falkvinge
Rickard Falkvinge (born Dick Greger Augustsson, 21 January 1972) is a Swedish politician and the founder of the Pirate Party, which he led until 2011. In 2005, he began developing a political party focused on illegal file sharing, copyright, and patent reform, which went on to elect members to the European Parliament in 2009 and helped inspire a global network of Pirate‑style parties, after which he became an advocate for digital rights and privacy. He continued as leader through the 2009 European Parliament election, when the party won its first seats. Falkvinge has been a long-time supporter of The Pirate Bay, a Sweden-based online search index founded in 2003, known for facilitating peer-to-peer file sharing, including copyrighted material such as movies and video games. In February 2016, Falkvinge became Head of Privacy for Private Internet Access, a US–based virtual private network (VPN) service.
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