DDoS (Denial-of-service attack) happens to make a website or hosting go offline so no one can reach it. Has this happened to your site or hosting before?
froggyboy604 said:
I think more people are learning about Cybercrime laws, and the dangers of going to prison for launching a DDOS. If the criminal gets appointed to a a non-tech savvy judge, or jury during trial, they could be charge with hacking which cause them to go to prison for many more years because it is a more serious crime.
Plus, the police maybe more likely to help out a huge company like Activision Blizzard because some of the police officers are most likely fans of Call of Duty, and World of Warcraft. Activision pays a lot of taxes to the local economy from the sales of Call of Duty, and World of Warcraft game disc at stores, so Activision may get faster service from the police if the police treat large businesses better than the average person who reports a crime because Activision contributes a lot of taxes from the sale of games.A 17-year-old boy was recently arrested in the Beswick area of Manchester, by the Metropolitan Police's e-crime unit. For what, you wonder? Screwing around in Black Ops -- in a bad, bad way.
The culprit, whose name was not released due to his age, was reported to local authorities back in September by Activision, who probably noticed the DDoS (denial of service) attack on their Black Ops servers relatively quickly.