RIAA to DoS Pirates?

_Chainsaw sent an article running at ZD that talks about the RIAAs latest plan to stop pirates: " We'll smother song swappers " is the quote, but it basically amounts to a Denial of Service. Way to go guys! Brilliant strategy!

Comments

This is not a DOS

[Captain Kirk]

Calling this a DOS misunderstands what a denial of serice attack does. A DOS attack blocks you r bandwidth and there's absolutely nothing you can do about that ping flood. If a record company uploads Mambo No 5 from your achine again and again very slowly, it may stop others uploading it at the same time but you can free your connection anytime but shutting down Gnutella, Kazaa or whatever. And since the song wasn't yours to give away in the first place, this hardly seems unreasonable.