DoS attacks gone wrong
Over the weekend, Revision3 suffered an illegal and illegitimate denial of service attack for running a valid bittorrent tracker they use to distribute their own content.
At what point does the MPAA/RIAA simply go to far? This seems to have been an illegal attack by a company hired by the MPAA/RIAA to take down illegal bittorrent tracking sites. However, it looks like they focused their DoS servers at a legitimate site that ended up costing Revision traffic (i.e. $$$$).
As someone that has been responsible for running some popular public sites, it is difficult enough to fend off all of the spammers and botnet attacks. It is considerably more difficult to fend off a well funded company designed for just such attacks, with the technical wherewithal to make it hurt.
I hope Revision3 gets some satisfaction out of this incident, and this sort of practice remains in the realm of illegal activities, no matter who is controlling the purse strings and lawyers.
