I don't think that is a fair comparison. Discussions about the ethical implications of patching a DLL aside, it is quite a different thing to patch a DLL to pr

I don't think that is a fair comparison. Discussions about the ethical implications of patching a DLL aside, it is quite a different thing to patch a DLL to prevent an application from crashing when you use it than to hammer someones server in an attempt to force them to fix a problem.