p2pnet - rss feed: Big Music’s Bahnhof Bust
p2pnet.net News:- Meet Larsson who’ll be sending us notes from Sweden every now and then.
His first post centres on the recent much-publicized (by the entertainment industry) bust in Sweden when national police acting for America’s major movie studio cartel raided the Stockholm offices of Bahnhof, Sweden’s largest ISP.
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1. Antipiratbyrån (APB) hands over reports to the police re: copyright infringements (credit: APB)
2. 4,000 people report APB for maintaining an illegal database. Investigation is not yet finished. (government) APB site goes down because of a DDOS attack (saw it myself) and Henrik [Pontén - AntipiratbyrÃ¥n boss] gets flooded in SMS’s (”Klapa snel hest”) (newspaper)
3. APB files for permission to raid Bahnhof - member organizations deposit money in case of lawsuit. (official government papers)
4. Permission is granted, APB and repo-men raid Bahnhof. None of the file they’re looking for are found. Other files are found, though, and charges based on them are pressed. (newspaper: I think they were acquired illegally, but that’s only my opinion.)
5. With respect to #4, a petition is started to report the people who approved the raid for misconduct. Currently around 2,800 signatures.
6. AUH hijacks the APB url and publishes e-mails. (former APB homepage)
7. Bahnhof may receive damages from the deposit @ 3. (newspaper)
Regarding Bahnof, it’s getting more interesting.
In a recent press release, it’s revealed that APB has known about this server for well over a year without doing anything.
As it turns out, APB (or, rather, their hired informer) supplied the servers and uploaded copyrighted materials. So that’s why they were so sure to find stuff, they put it there!
This will truly be an interesting development.
Log files for what this hired informer was up to can be found here.
But there’s more.
After Easter, APB’s data processing of IP-addresses will be investigated to see if they violated privacy laws - you need permission to store or process information that can be connected to a living physical person. If they can’t match the IP and the person, who are they going to sue?
“Major blow to piracy”.
Naw. Not really.
They should turn this into a comedy show about a private law-enforcement agency that pays informants to plant evidence they can then proceed to find.
Hated by 90% of the population (guesstimate), not really following the laws themselves,
– Larsson
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AUH hijacks the APB url - Swedish anti-p2p site hacked: more, p2pnet, March 15, 2005
March 22nd, 2005 at 4:03 pm
Log files for what this hired informer was up to can be found here.
So I get it that these are the log files that the hired informant had dl/uploaded and just him. If that is the case, then he is the “arr Pirate”. This is truely intrapment if it is the case since the informant was doing the same.
March 23rd, 2005 at 8:21 am
The EFF is covering apple v. thinksecret.. but this is IMPORTANT p2p news.. please put this at the front of the page..
March 23rd, 2005 at 7:56 pm
My computer crashes I just reboot. I thik I am sometimes a victim of a DoS attack. I’m not in a releaser group I don’t have responsibilities or commitments to anybody. And I can still share and release all I want and with success. If I get busted, theirs a million more just like me.
If the law goes after P2P companies. OpenSource companies will live on. The supreme court does not have international reach. Most open source authors have poor assets and the freedom to spread nature of the GPL will make sure the software escapes the law, even if the original authors do not. Emule is in the best position because it is the most heavily modded open-source P2P that I know.
Its called the cockroach effect. Its good to be legal. But its optional. I try to be moral a little bit and buy my favorite things that I download, but I have no problem downloading more than I can afford to buy. I have an above-average legal file percentage, even for Emule. I think P2P needs more legal and homemade files. I don’t care for the scandals or the scams, and a well-built P2P Netowrk will function with or without the schemes and the scandles.
March 24th, 2005 at 10:13 pm
Dahnhof was the first independent ISP in Sweden, but it is hardly the largest. International news agencies all got it wrong. It would rather fit in the middle size class