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 "railway station". History On March 10 2005 the Swedish police confiscated four servers placed in the Bahnhof premises, hoping to find copyrighted material. [LINK: http://www.idg.se/ArticlePages/200503/10/20050310125531_CS/tingsratten.pdf] 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.

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