Meeting Pirate Pontén
p2pnet news view | P2P | Movies:- Notorious Antipiratbyrån lawyer Henrik Pontén (right) has been front and centre since day one of efforts to cast file sharers as the villains in a piece designed to present the Hollywood studios which, year after year report record earnings, as being close to ruin.
In 2005, “The MPAA is currently going flat out to stomp BitTorrent sites and its Antipiratbyrån clone recently admitted using a paid informant against Sweden’s Bahnhof ISP in what Banhof ceo Jon Karlung described as a ‘badly arranged ambush’,” said p2pnet, adding he said pirated materials found on Bahnhof servers were placed there by an “Antipiratbyrån stooge.”
“Henrik, this is truly phenomenal,” said MPAA factotum Dean Garfield at the time.
“We are all very proud of you. I am sure you are a bit unpopular with the pirate community in Sweden right now.
“Great work.”
But Henrik Pontén is no longer Henrik Pontén, says enigmax in TorrentFreak.
How so?
He recently had a letter from the Swedish tax authority (Skatteverket), “informing him that his request for a change in his personal details had been accepted, which came as quite a surprise since he had made no such request,” says the story, going on »»»
From May 29th 2009, said the letter, 43 year-old Henrik Pontén would have his name changed and become known as Pirate Pontén, undoubtedly to the high amusement of millions of file-sharers.
“The pirate movement have previously tried threats and when that doesn’t work, they do this,” Pontén told Aftonbladet.
The name change was “silly,” Aftonbladet says, noting Pontén, “remains determined to press on and get his original name back”.
“The pirate movement often speaks about the importance of personal integrity, but the name change violates my integrity,” he states.
Seeing ‘integrity’ and ‘Pontén’ together in the same sentence is of itself more than just a little bizarre.
paid informant – Big Music’s Bahnhof Bust, March 22, 2005
truly phenomenal – Swedish anti-p2p site hacked: more, March 15, 2005
TorrentFreak – Pirate Bay Nemesis Has Name Changed By Pranksters, June 7, 2009
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June 8th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Wow!!! This is so hilarious, I just about fell off my chair laughing.
June 8th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Monique Wasted was another good name on pirate bay frontpage