Hoax campus advertisement offers students €100 to pretend to be pro-ACTA demonstrators

@jimmy_pirat (a Twitter account with only one post) snapped a blurrycam picture of a campus employment ad that sought students to pretend to be pro-ACTA and hold up photogenic signs, paying €100 for two hours' work. The recruitment agency named in the ad disavows any involvement with it, and has threatened to sue whomever posted it. I wonder who the hoaxter was?

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Or are they disavowing knowledge because, along with being paid to recruit, they have been paid to keep silent on the effort as well?
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The ad doesn’t actually say that it is about pro-ACTA.
It doesn’t say the opposite, either.

It just says it’s about a foto shooting on occasion
of Intellectual Property Day.

So, to actually know for sure what it’s about,
you would have had to contact the company
offering the jobs.

The company said, it doesn’t know about it.

So, where does the pro-ACTA claim actually
stem from? Wishful thinking?