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.

Carl Lundstorm was a financier who backed Pirate Bay when it was launched in 2003 in Sweden by Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Gottfrid Svartholm.

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.