In a twist of legal irony, BitTorrents site Pirate Bay of Sweden announced on its blogFriday that it has alerted Swedish authorities over allegations that it has been the subject of "infrastructural sabotage," "denial of service attacks," hacking" and "spamming" by some of the biggest names in the media.

The alleged evidence comes from some of the 6,000 e-mails and other information the clandestine group, MediaDefender-Defenders posted Saturday on BitTorrents sites. MediaDefenders-Defenders said it obtained the information from hacking e-mails from California's MediaDefender, a company that charges Hollywood to police their copyrights.

The Pirate Bay has been under considerable scrutiny from MediaDefender and the entertainment industry because the Bay posts links to tracker files that can be used to download copyrighted movies for free.

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