Pirate Bay’s DDo$ attack
By Nicole Kobie in Editorial
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It’s pranks like this that make The Pirate Bay — convicted copyright infringers though they may be — so incredibly lovable.
The Pirate Bay foursome have been fined £2.4 million and sentenced to jail time after a Swedish court found them guilty of copyright infringement. They’ve all along said they’d never pay (and with a retrial looming, may not have to), but founder Gottfrid Svartholm has decided to try something a little bit more clever than just withholding funds.
Svartholm has created what he calls an ‘internet-avgift’ — that’s ‘internet fee’ in English. Basically, internet users use the system to send very small payments, as little as 13 American cents, to the opposing lawyers. The trick is processing so many payments will cost more than the actually fine.
In his blog, Svartholm notes:
“The music companies will not benefit from this, instead it will cost them money to handle and process all the money.”
He’s calling at a ‘Distributed Denial of Dollars’ attack, as it uses money to ‘overload’ the other side, rather than traffic. Check out the full details here. He added, rather vindictively:
“Since Danowsky & Partners Advokatbyrå is a small firm, all the transactions are handled by hand. Handling all payments will be time consuming, costing the law firm in productivity. Maybe it will even affect their success in other cases.”
Although, if the trial is overturned, hopefully the lawyers don’t choose to pay the foursome back this way…
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