Bollywood Studios Use DDoS to Takedown Torrents

Everyone who argues for “Net Neutrality” usually does so because they like to use torrents to download copyrighted materials. And those same people would also then declare that using DDoS attack bots should be illegal traffic on the internet.

From Techradar here:

The managing director of Aiplex Software has admitted that his company has been used to deliver DoS attacks on websites which host illegal torrents.

Aiplex Software, which is based in India, is hired by the movie industry to deliver copyright takedown notices and if these are ignored, then they bring out the big guns – hitting the site with a DDoS attack.

Aiplex Software works mainly for Bollywood studios but one of its clients Fox STAR Studios, part of 20th Century Fox.

I don’t know where they get their bots from to launch the attack. If its from a volunteer group of client systems with an agent installed, I don’t see a problem with this. If the guy is just a paid botherder using compromised systems, it should be illegal.