Bahnhof

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Bahnhof is a Swedish Internet service provider, founded in 1994 by Oscar Swartz in Uppsala, and was the first independent ISP in Sweden. Today the company is represented in Stockholm, Göteborg, Uppsala, Borlänge and Lund.

It is also the German word for "train station".

[edit] History

On March 10 2005 the Swedish police confiscated four servers placed in the Bahnhof premises, hoping to find copyrighted material. The court order (Swedish) Although these servers were located near Bahnhof's server park (in a network lab area), the company claimed they were not its property since they had been privately purchased by the employees. Furthermore, they presented evidence that the material on these servers was placed there by someone hired by Antipiratbyrån, a Swedish organisation fighting against copyright infringement.

There were allegedly a total of seven top sites located at Bahnhof prior to the raid conducted by the Swedish Anti-Piracy Bureau all hosted and administrated by employees at Bahnhof. The most famous among these sites were ECD (Enigma CD), ACX (Artic Connexion) and IP (Infinite Power), home of warez groups such as DEViANCE.^{[citation needed]}

Bahnhof was drawn into a media frenzy along with Swedish Anti-Piracy Bureau where both got bad publicity. Bahnhof told media these servers were administered by the Anti-piracy bureau but log files show that the infiltrator had uploaded less then 1% of the content on one of seven servers hosted at Bahnhof.^{[citation needed]}