Nutzwerk PR claims shutdown of FFII.org and insolvency of FFII
29th July 2005 — a German Internet company today claimed to have shut down the FFII Internet server and to have succeded in litigating FFII to death. Nutzwerk GmbH, also known as SaferSurf , issued the fifth in a series of libelous press releases against FFII. There is however some truth to the story: Nutzwerk is trying hard to push FFII into bankruptcy by obtaining urgent injunctions on the same matter in several local courts all across Germany, and by doing everything possible to maximise the costs for FFII. Today’s story reflects Nutzwerk’s wishful thinking as well as some real problems with the current German system of legal liability for contents published on the Internet.
Update: Apparently, I have not been paying attention… ffii.org is currently offline.
The domain ffii.org is currently offline, due to a hoster who did not have the nerve to research a baseless threat letter sent by Nutzwerk’s lawyers. – Hartmut Pilch
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Just to be clear: FFII will fight this. The insolvancy was just due to vacation issues and is now cleared. The website was down today due to technical issues, not legal.
For now… look at the google cache.
So it was actually down? When I checked, before posting the above, it seemd OK.
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