Honestly, we all know the wild west mentality of the internet (yes, it is post national as in 'above the law') and therefore, everyone should assume attacks like that and build defenses against them. Building a service which could be brought to a 'major problem' with simple requests leading to high server loads is just negligent. What would that site do if someone actually wanted to attack it?!?
I am not saying that the trouble with the law enforcement in the internet is a neither a good nor a bad thing. Actually, it depends and in the 'real' world I am pretty happy that the law enforcement works quite good where I live. I think the thin line is somewhere where I start to fear my own governments more than the bad guys (while not having any evil intentions or plans at all).
> the wild west mentality of the internet (yes, it is post national as in 'above the law')
No. It's only been ahead of most laws for a while, as all frontiers are while they remain frontiers. But all frontiers eventually close, and laws catch up with them as they do so. That is what we're seeing now, and have been for a decade or more.
I am not saying that the trouble with the law enforcement in the internet is a neither a good nor a bad thing. Actually, it depends and in the 'real' world I am pretty happy that the law enforcement works quite good where I live. I think the thin line is somewhere where I start to fear my own governments more than the bad guys (while not having any evil intentions or plans at all).