Most people know by now that the Pirate Bay case concluded and found the defendants guilty. The main goal of the governments is to stop pirating and force people to purchase movies, music, and software. While this small victory scored a point for the Swedish government it is causing havoc for their lawyer.

Peter Danowsky was the lawyer for the plaintiffs in the Pirate Bay case. The attack that has been devised could potentially cause his firm to have a lot extra fees and bookkeeping work. The attack is called the DDo$ or Distributed Denial of Dollars. A site located at internetavgift.se is asking people to send 1Krona, which is about 13 cents, to the account. You might speculate this to be a good thing. They’re asking people to send them money. However the truth is that it could end up costing the firm a substantial amount of money.

This is because the bank has rules in which companies can only receive 1,000 payments a year for free. If there are payments made after that then they get charged 1.7 kronor, which is about 21 cents, for each extra transaction. That means after the 1,000 payment mark that the company would have to pay 8 cents for each payment. If that isn’t bad enough his firm might have to actually refund all of the payments because the law states that inaccurate payments must be returned if the person that sent the money claims it.

On top of the funds scheme the fact that every transaction has to be logged into the law firm books means that they will need someone to spend the time doing so.

While the site says that it has nothing to do with the case and the ruling the lawyer believes it’s the reason he’s under this attack.

Source: CNET

Re-Tweet This Post