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>When they caught a competitor ripping off content from Pornhub to create a knockoff website, engineers placed a link to the offending website in a few pixels o

>When they caught a competitor ripping off content from Pornhub to create a knockoff website, engineers placed a link to the offending website in a few pixels of the Pornhub homepage, where millions of people clicked daily. The resulting tsunami of web traffic swamped the pirate site and knocked it offline in minutes — the kiss of death. Content copying competitor aside, is this type of response even legal? It feels like another form of DDOS.

convolvatron 5y ago
under what kind of law would it not be?
- rileymat2 5y ago
  The intent was a DDOS, I am not sure the mechanism is relevant?
- dymk 5y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act > Provisions addressed the distribution of malicious code and denial-of-service attacks.
vmception 5y ago
oooh my gawd, I love that found out
rk06 5y ago
Thieves don’t go to police for stolen goods. This is all shady. No way in hell, are they going to take legal action. Let alone when they are getting legitimate traffic, instead of automated bots.