While I don't agree with this course of action, I'm not entirely sure to what extent this is actually illegal. Clearly, organizing DDoS with malicious intent sh

While I don't agree with this course of action, I'm not entirely sure to what extent this is actually illegal. Clearly, organizing DDoS with malicious intent should be illegal, but is it really illegal? After all, technically, it is only causing high load by doing something that is more or less intended use for the technology.