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Boing Boing.

FFII.org is the home of the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure, the activists who helped kill software patents in Europe earlier this summer.

Nutzwerk is a software company (they make “SafeSurf” among other products) who advocate for software patents.

Nutzwerk sent a bogus takedown notice to Teamware, who host the DNS for FFII.org, and got them to remove the DNS record for FFII.org. FFII is now seeking a new host, but in the meantime, the bogus threats of Nutzwerk, combined with Teamware’s careless cowardice, means that a pro-software-patent lobbyist has used the law to silence its critics.

Shocking!