Rick Falkvinge
Rickard Falkvinge | |
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.jpg) Rickard Falkvinge at 3 June 2006 pirate demonstration in Sweden | |
| Born | Rickard Falkvinge 21 January 1972 |
| Occupation(s) | IT entrepreneur Politician |
| Political party | Pirate Party |
| Website | rickfalkvinge.se |
Rickard "Rick" Falkvinge (IPA: /'falk'viŋe/), born Dick Augustsson on 21 January 1972 in Gothenburg, is a Swedish IT entrepreneur known as the leader and founder of the Swedish Pirate Party.
Falkvinge graduated from Göteborgs Högre Samskola where he studied natural science in 1991. During his studies he was active in the Moderate Youth League (Template:Lang-sv), the youth wing of the Swedish Moderate Party.
He started his first company in 1988 at the age of 16.
In 1993 he began studies for a degree in Engineering Physics at the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg. He dropped out 1995 to work as an entrepreneur.
Falkvinge has previously worked as a project leader at Microsoft. He was manager of development at a smaller software company but resigned to work with the Pirate Party on a full time basis. The Danish documentary Good Copy Bad Copy includes segments of an interview with Falkvinge explaining the emergence of the Pirate Party in response to the May 2006 police raid on The Pirate Bay. (The Pirate Bay is not affiliated with Pirate Party.)
He currently resides in Sollentuna north of Stockholm.
See also
- Anti-copyright
- Good Copy Bad Copy
- Pirate Party (Piratpartiet)
- Piratbyrån (not affiliated with Pirate Party)
- Steal This Film
External links
- Rick Falkvinge, blog Template:Sv icon
- Rick Falkvinge, blog Template:En icon
- Rick Falkvinge, old blog Template:Sv icon
- Partiledare Rick noterar, newsletter Template:Sv icon
- A speech by Rickard Falkvinge for the Piratenpartei Deutschland (YouTube)
- Copyright regime vs. civil liberties, a speech by R. Falkvinge for Google Tech Talk (Google Video)
- Rickard Falkvinge speaks at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2007 (27 July 2007)
- Rickard Falkvinge speaks at Stanford Law School (31 July 2007)
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