Controversies
On 10 March 2005, the Swedish police confiscated four servers placed in the Bahnhof premises, hoping to find copyrighted material. Although these servers were located near Bahnhof's server park (in a network lab area) the company claimed they were not their property since they had been privately purchased by staff. They further presented evidence showing the material on these servers had been planted there by someone hired by Antipiratbyrån, a Swedish organisation fighting against copyright infringement.
In December 2010, it was revealed that, having been kicked off their servers at Amazon, the controversial website Wikileaks had also placed their data with Bahnhof. Jon Karlung, chairman of Bahnhof, one of the companies providing server space to the whistleblowing website, gave press interviews in the light of the new controversy created by Wikileaks leak of information relating to the Afghan War, even showing journalists the two servers on which the data was held. By the chairman's own admission, the data centre is essentially like any other, and WikiLeaks is treated just like any other client Bahnhof provides server services to. In 2012, Political site "wordswithmeaning.org" announced they too were leasing two dedicated servers in Pionen alongside Wikileaks after receiving suspensions and restrictions prohibiting the website being hosted in the United States.
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