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.