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| - Rasmus Fleischer (born 19 April 1978 in Halmstad) is a Swedish historian, musician, freelance journalist and debater. He is currently working as a Ph.D. student at the Institute of Contemporary History at Södertörn University College in southern Stockholm. In 2003, he was one of the founders of Piratbyrån, the pro-piracy organization that, in turn, once founded BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay. Since then he has been lecturing extensively, on subjects related to "the collapse of copyright" and the future of music, at various European conferences addressing art and/or new media.
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| - Rasmus Fleischer (born 19 April 1978 in Halmstad) is a Swedish historian, musician, freelance journalist and debater. He is currently working as a Ph.D. student at the Institute of Contemporary History at Södertörn University College in southern Stockholm. In 2003, he was one of the founders of Piratbyrån, the pro-piracy organization that, in turn, once founded BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay. Since then he has been lecturing extensively, on subjects related to "the collapse of copyright" and the future of music, at various European conferences addressing art and/or new media. Fleischer founded the term "national left" for those in the Swedish leftist movement supporting national souvereignty and the Geneva-convention, especially mentioning organizations such as Folket i Bild/Kulturfront. He also became controversial in the Swedish left for supporting Israel in its war against Hezbollah and Lebanon 2006. Parts of an interview with Fleischer commenting on copyright are featured in Steal This Film. During January and February of 2008, he is staying as an artist in residence in Vienna, invited by the Museumsquartier to live there while doing mainly theoretical and conceptual work. When the Swedish engineering weekly Ny Teknik in September 2006 ranked the fifty most influential persons in Swedish IT-industry, he ended up as seventh on the list. Rasmus Fleischer has also studied at the Royal College of Music and, amongst other musical activities, interpreted medieval music in the ensemble Vox Vulgaris.
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