Rasmus Fleischer

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Rasmus Fleischer, spokesman of Piratbyrån speaking at a demonstration in Stockholm held 3 June 2006.
Rasmus Fleischer, spokesman of Piratbyrån speaking at a demonstration in Stockholm held 3 June 2006.

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.[1]

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.[2][3][4][5][6]

Fleischer founded the term "national left"[7] 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.[8] [9] [10]

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.[11]

When the Swedish computer magazine Ny Teknik ranked the fifty most influential persons in Swedish IT-industry, he ended up as seventh on the list.[12]

Rasmus Fleischer has also studied at the Royal College of Music and, amongst other musical activities, interpreted medieval music in the ensemble Vox Vulgaris[13].


[edit] Notes

  1. ^ OutsideS
  2. ^ Between artworks and networks: Navigating through the crisis of copyright « Copyriot
  3. ^ Piratbyran’s speech at Reboot « Copyriot
  4. ^ ::: Piratbyrån :::
  5. ^ The Oil of the 21st Century. Conference
  6. ^ Copyriot » Some notes on General Rights Management
  7. ^ http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasmus_Fleischer#cite_note-0
  8. ^ http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasmus_Fleischer
  9. ^ http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasmus_Fleischer#cite_note-1
  10. ^ Måndag på Möllan (uppföljning kring Hizbollah) « Copyriot
  11. ^ Copyriot » Residerar i Wien
  12. ^ (Swedish) "Mäktigast i it-Sverige 2006 - hela listan", Ny Teknik, 2006-09-19. Retrieved on 2007-02-11. 
  13. ^ Vox Vulgaris – Music at Last.fm

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