Mar 28, 2005 : Anti-Piracy Firm Accused of Piracy

📅 March 28, 2005 - Swedish anti-piracy organization Antipiratbyrå has been accused of illegally downloading copyright-protected films and games in an effort to plant evidence against Internet service provider Bahnhof. Two weeks ago, the APB led the raid against Bahnhof, where authorities confiscated servers containing thousands of film, music and games files.  APB lawyer Henrik Pontén reportedly admitted the organization had hired an infiltrator to use against Bahnhof, which raised its own internal investigation and, according to managing director Jon Karlung, discovered the APB infiltrator had himself carried out over 68,000 uploads and downloads of copyright-protected material on Bahnhof's servers.
 "How can the Antipiratbyrå," says Jon Karlung, "which in the form of a lobby organisation works to stop the file-sharing culture, actively pay a person to upload thousands of copyright-protected files to a server which, with the help of the authorities, they allow to be confiscated." Bahnhof has released the log files to the media and is contemplating on reporting the case to the police. If APB is found guilty of planting evidence, the individuals responsible would face charges of incitement to commit a crime and of being an accessory to that crime.