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I can't remember the details exactly but there was a case in Germany in which a coordinated online and offline protest against Lufthansa was carried out, the on
by jamil7 5y ago
I can't remember the details exactly but there was a case in Germany in which a coordinated online and offline protest against Lufthansa was carried out, the online component being a denial of service attack on the airline's website. Lufthansa attempted to charge those response and the court dropped all charges - seeing it as a legitimate form of protest.
- spsful 5y agoRegardless, I can't see how anyone could fathom prosecuting thousands (if not millions?) of participants in a DDOS attack and actually being successful.
- ohCh6zos 5y agoYou probably don’t need to prosecute each and every one of them, just the biggest offenders.
- skeeter2020 5y agoIt would be much more effective to go after the facilitator who made it possible, in this case the developer. Both efficient and punative messaging-wise
- coldacid 5y agoThe German (and generally, almost all European) legal system is a very different beast to the American one. What might be dropped by the court there may very well be seen as legitimate and prosecutable on the other side of the Atlantic, and vice versa. For something happening in the USA, you'd be best served by precedents from the USA itself, then from other common law countries, before considering anywhere in mainland Europe.
- GordonS 5y agoI'm not an American, but from what I know of the US judicial system and the power corporations have, I would think the courts would come down very heavily on anyone doing this - they'd rot in jail.