p2pnet.net News:- The Big Music cartel’s Swedish RIAA clone, Antipiratbyrån, has admitted using a paid informer in its attack on Sweden’s Bahnhof ISP in what Banhof ceo Jon Karlung described as a “badly arranged ambush”.

Bahnhof is now, “considering legal action after it emerged that illegal material uncovered in a raid on its premises was placed there by a paid informant of the antipiracy group that mounted the operation,” says The Register, going on:

“Speaking to The Register, Jon Karlung, Banhof’s CEO, claimed that the pirated materials found on its servers were placed there by Rouge. ‘He logged in from outside,’ he said.

“We don’t know what this guy has been doing. Maybe we will take legal action against Antipiratbyrån.”

The Register says Antipiratbyrån’s Henrik Pontén confirmed the Big Music enforcer hired Rouge to penetrate the “piracy” underground in Sweden, and that Rouge, “had contact with others inside Bahnhof”.

“What is true is four servers were taken by police [from Bahnhof],” and that one had “pirated” material on it, Pontén is quoted as saying.

But APB didn’t escape unscathed.

Sweden’s Arga Unga Hackare (Angry Young Hackers) did their own penetration with APB on the receiving end and Pontén and his friends at the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) suffered the ignomy of seeing their fulsome emails to each other splashed online.

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See:-
paid informant - Big Music’s Bahnhof Bust, p2pnet, March 22, 2005
The Register - Bahnhof slams antipiracy ambush, March 30, 2005
fulsome emails - Swedish anti-p2p site hacked: more, p2pnet. March 15, 2005

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