Flour Power

Instead of simply paying the €2.7 million fine, the Pirate Bay founders came up with a way of making the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) spend even more money – a DDo$ attack.

Gottfrid Svarholm (anakata), one of the four Pirate Bay founders, has come up with the DDo$, a Distributed Denial of Dollars attack – not to be confused with a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service). The plan encourages people to pay extremely small ”internet-avgift” (Internet fee) of 1 SEK (less than €0.10) to the Danowsky law firm, which represented the IFPI in the Pirate Bay trial. Because the the bank account to which the payments are directed only has 1,000 free money transfers (after which any transfers have a surcharge of 2 SEK for the account holder), if enough people send a fee to them, it will actually end up costing the Danowsky firm and other music companies to handle and process all the payments.

More details, including an explanation of “internet-avgift” (if you understand Swedish), can be found at the Blog Pirate.

Is it just me, or this is a stroke of genius?