Loading Koch Industries Website Too Many Times In 1 Minute Just Cost This Truck Driver $183,000

You can contribute to paying his fine at
http://freeanons.org/eric-j-rosol-arrest-for-opwisconsin/

For people like the Kochs, when their companies cause harm to people, they're not going to be forced to pay the legal costs for all those people.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/02/anonymous-koch-attack_n_4374365.html

Ryan J. Reilly
12/02/2013

A Wisconsin man who, for one minute, took part in an Anonymous-sponsored effort to overwhelm the website of Koch Industries has been sentenced to two years probation and ordered to pay the company $183,000.

Eric J. Rosol, a 38-year-old truck driver from Black Creek, Wis., was sentenced on Monday in federal court in Wichita, Kan., where Koch Industries is headquartered. He pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of accessing a protected computer, admitting that he used a software called Low Orbit Ion Cannon Code to participate in a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Kochind.com for approximately one minute back in 2011. As a result of the attack, the website was down for about 15 minutes.

Both the government and the defendant agreed that the direct loss associated with Rosol's participation in the attack was less than $5,000.

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Lawyers for Koch Industries convinced U.S. District Judge Eric F. Melgren, a President George W. Bush appointee, that Rosol should have to pay for the entire consulting fee -- restitution in the amount of $183,000 -- despite of the fact that Koch Industries had hired the group before Rosol even took part in the attack, and though Rosol was not the only participant (he was the only one who was caught.)

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