Customers of Sandro Di Donato's satellite broadband company Active8Me are reporting on the broadband discussion board Whirlpool that they are receiving letters offering them ownership of their satellite broadband receiving equipment. Activ8Me is owned by Australian Private Networks.Sandro Di Donato has spent Friday and Monday in the Supreme Court of Victoria answering questions from the liquidators of the Bill Express group of companies. He maintains that APN and Activ8Me was entirely his own business and that he was bullied and threatened by Bill Express directors Hal and Ian Christiansen into tipping it into Bill Express.He told the court on Friday that his relationship with Ian and Hal Christiansen ended in early 2008 and he tried to extricate APN from the Christiansens.However, in 2007 he had no choice but to sign documents put in front of him by Ian Christiansen's lawyer because the federal government was demanding a guarantor for licensing under the broadband guarantee for rural and regional Australia.That guarantee gave registered providers of satellite broadband up to $4500 per installation, the court has been told, and Di Donato had no other choice but to accept Christiansen's conditional guarantee because he had been rejected already by IPStar and ETT Limited.In order to guarantee his business, Ian Christiansen insisted Di Donato agree to the government subsidy underpinning a complex debt factoring arrangement that leveraged the government cash flow of Activ8Me through the Bill Express group, then in dispute over unpaid bills with Optus and other big suppliers, the court has been told.