I never agreed with making DDoS a crime. It is fair play within the protocol of the internet. But most people don't want to be sovereign, they'd rather be owned by a King. You don't understand the following.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." ATTRIBUTION: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Pennsylvania Assembly: Reply to the Governor, November 11, 1755.The Pa
DDoS is an aggressive act against another's property. How does the fact that its within the protocol of the internet change that?
Whose fault it is that a house is built of paper, the hurricane or the builder?
Would it be economic to encourage everyone to lay their cash in their front lawns at night, and hire an elaborate policing force (i.e. centralized authority) to insure the safety of the cash?
Opportunity cost is a bitch and it is nature, because the Second Law of Thermo insures every inefficient barrier to maximum entropy will not stand forever.
Entropy is the operative word, and make sure you understand its maximization requires decentralization (e.g. of responsibility).
Thus I have just proven mathematically that self-responsibility is a prerequisite of
(degrees-of-)freedom.
Q.E.D.
Pseudointellectual are you
sure?