Over at Sports Law Blog, Howard Wasserman has detailed a number of legal issues surrounding Colin Cowherd's DNS attack on The Big Lead. Long-time Off Wing reader Skip Oliva picks up that thread at his own blog, and writes that Wasserman ignored one aspect of the law -- anti-trust regulation:
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It seems like a jerkoff thing that this radio host did. But still, is legal action necessary against a guy who told his listeners to go visit a website?
Kaufman’s column was particularly overwrought about it.
I don’t think that it was a DNS or DoS attack which is flooding a web server with false requests. Colin simply sent a bunch of people there at the same time and overwhelmed TBL’s server. If he had said, this is a great site, everyone go there now, it would have done the same thing. TBL was down for 48 hours because his host decided to boot him for too much traffic at once, not because of a continued stream of people. I’m not defending Cowherd of course, I’m just pointing out that he was prob directly responsible for TBL being down for an hour… the rest was the shitty host.
It was a crappy thing to do and TBL has gotten a lot of free pub out of it. There’s no need to keep this thing going further and bring in some FCC investigation or anything silly like that.