Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN accused of falsifying evidence

Today ex Pirate Bay public relations officer Peter Sunde has accused the Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN of falsifying evidence submitted to the Dutch court as part of BREIN's case against the Pirate Bay. BREIN have been involved in cases against the Pirate Bay website and those involved in it for some time.

After the bizarre first case in July this year, when BREIN's case against the Pirate Bay founders was won "by default" due to the defendants failing to show up in court, despite the Swedish defendants in the case being unaware that they were in fact on trial in the Netherlands.

This was made stranger when the Dutch court refused to inform defendant Peter Sunde of the verdict (in the case in which he was a defendant). To add to the oddities in the case Peter Sunde insists that neither he nor any of the other defendants in the case are the current owners of the Pirate Bay, as it was sold to a company called Reservella Limited in 2006.

BREIN have claimed that Reservella is merely a front for the defendants in the case, and today they submitted evidence of this to the Dutch court. This evidence is reputedly a credit report from UK company Experian PLC giving full details of the Reservella company, and listing one of the defendants (Fredrik Neij) as CEO of the company. Peter Sunde has, in a damning blogpost, accused BREIN of forging the document.

Peter's blogpost can be read here: Copy me happy: #fail in .NL