[Discussioni] [NEWS] FFII domain taken down

[Andrea Glorioso]

Ciao a tutti.

Non ho trovato riscontri (a parte il fatto che il sito www.ffii.org e`
effettivamente giu`) ma la fonte - vedi sotto per il testo - e`
solitamente affidabile.

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http://technollama.blogspot.com/2005/08/ffii-domain-taken-down.html

After  their  success   in  bringing  down  the  Computer  Implemented
Inventions   Directive,   the Foundation    for   a  Free  Information
Infrastructure (FFII) has  managed to become one  of the best examples
of a  powerful  and influential civil   society  organisation that has
managed to educate and  inform the  public with  regards to  a complex
legal technical issue like  software patents.  But  now FFII  is under
attack... from German spammers.

FFII had some examples of bad software patents on their site about the
German company Nutzwerk. This company has been  set as an example of a
software company  that profits from software  patents. But Nutzwerk is
also a well  known web advertiser that profits  from typo domains (see
for  example www.yaho.co.uk),  and   other  practices such as   Google
spamming with link farms. Their complaint against  FFII? That FFII has
been damaging  their  reputation  because  of  the high visibility  of
FFII's pages in Google. Nutzwerk has  then been threatening people who
are linking to FFII's information.

Now Nutzwerk has succeeded in threatening FFII's ISP in Germany to the
point that they have taken down the site  that they hosted. All of the
pages on the domain ffii.org have gone, including swpat.fii.org, which
had become the starting  point for research  in this area. The site is
still available through  FFII's own machine,  which can be  located at
212.72.72.97.

This case is worrying for many reasons. Foremost is the use of the law
to bring down a critic. I find it appalling that a  company will go to
these lengths to shut down  a potential critic. The potential negative
publicity that they could get from this should be enough to discourage
some companies from taking such tactics, but I guess that link farmers
are a different breed altogether.

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Ciao,

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Andrea Glorioso             sama a miu-ft.org         +39 333 820 5723
        .:: Media Innovation Unit - Firenze Tecnologia ::.
	      Conquering the world for fun and profit
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