May 12th, 2009
Pirate Bay defendant urges DDo$ attack on lawyer
Wow. Talk about revenge. The Pirate Bay cofounder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg (anakata) has devised an ingeniously evil plan to get back at the law firm that helped deliver the verdict again TPB. According to the Blog Pirate:
The plan can be called a Distributed Denial of Dollars attack (DDo$). The plan is an away-from-keyboard DDoS attack. DDoS attacks involve lots of users overloading the victim with internet traffic damaging their ability to provide services. Money, instead of Internet traffic is used in this case. The victim is Danowsky’s law firm which represented the IFPI at the Pirate Bay trial.
A friend of anakata told Blog Pirate that the bank account to which the payments are directed has only 1000 free transfers, after which any transfers have a surcharge of 2 SEK for the account holder. Any internet-fee payments made after the first 1000, which includes the law firm’s ordinary transfers, will instead of giving 1 SEK, cost 1 SEK to the law firm. Since Danowsky & Partners Advokatbyrå is a small firm, all the transactions are handled by hand. Handling all payments will be time consuming, costing the law firm in productivity. Maybe it will even affect their success in other cases.
The defenants have all vowed that the recording industry won’t see a dime, but, News.com reports, the Swedish enforcement agency is ready to seize assets - if it can find them.
“We will start to look for assets on Wednesday if no money has been paid by then. Money in a bank account is an asset, and if we find it we will seize it,” Fredrik Karlsson, a team leader at the enforcement authority Kronofogdemyndigheten, told Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter.
