During his high school years, he was active in Moderat Skolungdom and Moderata Ungdomsförbundet, the youth wings of the Moderaterna party in Sweden.

[5] According to the party, the site was viewed three million times in the first two days,[5] and in the morning of 2 January, the newspaper Dagens Industri published a notice about the initiative,[6] followed by a longer article in the tabloid Aftonbladet.

[7] Falkvinge took out a large bank loan, quit his job at Cypak, and started working in the Pirate Party full-time.

[3] Following the police raid on The Pirate Bay on 31 May 2006, protests erupted on June 3, and he held his first widely translated speech, "Nothing new under the Sun.

[12] Falkvinge chaired the Pirate Party while living off of donations and charity from supporters for 18 months,[13] until he was elected to the European Parliament.

[24] In February 2016, it was announced that Falkvinge had accepted a full-time role as head of privacy for Private Internet Access, a US-based personal VPN service.