Here's the thing with Civil Disobedience: you take a certain amount of risk when you do it. In fact, if there is no risk, there's little point in the "disobedi

Here's the thing with Civil Disobedience: you take a certain amount of risk when you do it. In fact, if there is no risk, there's little point in the "disobedient" action at all. So when these guys go to jail for DoSing a server, they've actually partially succeeded. Now when a majority of the populace cares that they've been punished for their actions, and believes the disobedience was a just action against an invalid law, then they'll have actually succeeded. Put another way (and translated into meatspace), environmental protesters don't win when they chain themselves to a tree to stop it from being cut down. They win when they are confronted by the authorities, hauled off to jail, and covered by the media, making people aware of their protest. Simply blocking access to the site and hoping there will be no repercussions is basically pointless.