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Does suing your ISP seem far-fetched? It already happens. When the multinational company Danone announced plans to close factories in France, Olivier Malnuit opened a site, jeboycottedanone.com, to criticize this. (The name is French for &ldquo;I boycott Danone.&rdquo;) Danone sued not only him but his site hosting company and domain name registrar for &ldquo;counterfeiting of goods&rdquo; &mdash; and in April 2001 received a ruling prohibiting Malnuit from mentioning the name &ldquo;Danone&rdquo; either in the domain name or in the text of the site. Even more telling, the registrar removed the domain in fear before the court made a ruling.