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Don't Go To War With The
Internet. Pirate Bay Prosecuting Attorneys Experience A `Denial Of
Dollars' Attack. You Don't Want One
An interesting extra report
For those not up on it, The Pirate Bay is a Swedish web
site which makes available a host of .torrent files which, when used
with software supporting the BitTorrent protocol,
permits super fast downloading of files from multiple sources
simultaneously. For some reason the music industry has a problem with
this and at their urging Swedish police arrested The Pirate Bay founder
for copyright violations (Yarrgh matey, ye've been boarded!). The music
industry won, The Pirate Bay was found guilty, but with legal
appeals still to be had. The Pirate Bay is one of the most
popular sites on the Internet.
While the media is forcing our
focus to the Somali pirates who attack using the seas to reach their
victims, a new breed of pirates are quietly emerging who attack using
the sea of Internet data to reach their victims.
Untold numbers
of Internet users became enraged at the guilty ruling and, as expected,
the prosecuting attorneys have became a focus of their ire. One outcome
is that the prosecuting attorneys, Danowsky
& Partners, have become subjected to a "Denial of
Dollars Attack" (DDo$), an idea dreamed up by Pirate Bay founder,
Gottfrid Svartholm.
The
attack financially and administratively burdens the attacked
via
the process, ironically, of sending them money,
temporarily. Sending the attorneys 1 SEK (about 13 cents) via
their Internet payment service, internet-avgift, results in
a 2
SEK service charge (about 26 cents) so that each 13 cents
they
receive results in a 13 cent loss. And then it gets bad.
Not
only is the firm burdened with the fees, but they are burdened with the
overhead of handling the flood of payments and then handling the
subsequent requests for refunds of the original 13 cents.
Under
Swedish law they must return the money if requested and the firm does
not receive back their 26 cent service charge. With the
number of
outraged Internet users this can quickly cost a fortune and lock down
the firm in paperwork perhaps even impeding their ability to fight an
appeal.
There is no mention of what affect this has had so far on Danowsky
& Partners so here's a pirate joke.
Q:
What is Captain Hook's favorite store?
A: The Secondhand Shop!
The Register 12-May-09
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