Promoter of online demonstration fined

Zdnet Germany reports that the promoter of a online demonstration against the Lufthansa was fined with 900 Euros by the Local Court of Frankfurt. On his web page he had called to download a program to block the site of Lufthansa. The program sent tons of connection requests in a short period so that the Lufthansa web page was not reachable for 10 minutes.

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