BUSINESS MAVERICK #71 Rick Falkvinge - Political Evangelist and Founder of the first Pirate Party

Rick Falkvinge is a Political Evangelist and Founder of the first Pirate Party http://www.piratpartiet.se/english/ and a campaigner for next-generation civil liberties. In particular, he stresses how the copyright industry works with security hawks to erode the parts of Internet that guarantee civil liberties. On this platform, one of privacy and digital rights, his party became the largest in the below-30 demographic in the 2009 European Elections, and his nascent party has now spread to 70 countries. He has been named a Top Global Thinker by Foreign Policy magazine http://foreignpolicy.com and shortlisted as one of the world’s most influential people by TIME Magazine http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2107952_2107953_2110143,00.html . Previously Rick was Head of Development at Cypak and Release Manager et al at Microsoft. He is author of Swarmwise: The tactical manual to changing the world and Co Author of The Case for Copyright Reform http://falkvinge.net/books/