WTF is up with these DALnet attacks?

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http://www.winbeta.org/modules.php?n...rticle&sid=659

For at least a month, distributed denial of service (define), or DDOS, attacks have been crippling DALnet, one of the world's largest Internet Relay Chat (define) networks, bringing it to its knees and raising the possibility that many hosting providers may refuse to host IRC servers at all.

this is so depressing. because i don't believe for a second this is the RIAA or the NSA or the CIA or the MPAA or any other of your favorite bad guy acronyms. this is the SFA (Stupid Fucking Assholes) on the loose. and i think the SFA are sometimes our worst enemy.