I disagree with you completely. If the only way to save mircscripts.org is to engage in DoS attacks, then bye bye mircscripts.org. Since when is it justifiable to commit a crime because someone else did? Someone murders someone you care about so you are now allowed to go and murder someone they care about? The major nations of the world are getting further and further from the archaic teaching of "an eye for an eye" and to try and say it is necessary is ridiculous. I've been dealing with DoSers for the last 6 years or so doing research, trying to come up with protection methods, etc. I know a little something about the issue. The two biggest rules are:
1.) Don't give in to their demands
These are children, not rational people. They think it is fun and they believe they can not get caught. Giving them what they want only gives them more power because they will quickly realize (as all children do) that the adults are going to give in each time they do something. In my experience 9 out of 10 times the guy is gonna DoS regardless of whether you give in or not, so why give him the power trip of allowing him to realize he can control you? I say, ban him, preferably right after he says "don't even think of banning me." That can signifigantly leave an impact on him because it shows he does not have control over you it shows you have control over him. You recognize that he is a child and what he says has no impact on what you do.
2.) Don't DoS them. First of all, I know of _several_ instances where people were "100% positive" that they "knew the person who was DoSing" so they decided why not DoS back? Well guess what? They were wrong, it wasn't the right person. Now you haven't help stop the DoS attacks, you've helped spread it. And if the people you've now DoSed have the same attitude of "you DoS me I DoS you" then you've potentially exponentially amplified the situation. Secondly, even if you do definately know who is doing it, do you think DoSing them is going to stop it? In my experience it does not. They will continue doing it, you are playing with fire yet you will be the only one who gets burned.
What is generally effective?
1.) Information gathering. If you own the machines under attack, then you set up a program such snort which will give you information about where the attacks are coming from. You should then contact the individual owners/operators of those machines to alert them of the fact that they have been compromised. You might think this is a futile task, but doing this I've gotten a few hundred machines secured.
2.) Threaten legal action. Even if you can't follow through with it, remember these are children. You can usually get some information about the people. Many of them enjoy connecting to the IRC server, emailing the victim, etc. That leaves a paper trail of some kind in many cases. Following this trail can usually lead to some information. For example a location traceroute on the person's IP can usually get you the town they live in. Telling someone you will prosecute them and then providing the town they live in is often enough to get them to stop. When they think they are invincible they will continue, once you show them that they are not, they give up. I've managed to get some DoSers to tell me their realnames, then a week later I tell them "I know who you are <his name here>" Being that he is a child he forgets that he had told me this a week ago (it was just a minor detail, no need to remember it), and it is often enough to get them to stop.
In short, don't resort to counterattacks, if you do that, most likely you'll be the one who gets caught; simply because the DoS kids have been doing it for a while, they know some methods to hide, you most likely do not. So you'll go to jail for their crimes, is that worth it? Secondly, retaliation never stops the problems, it only increases them. You DoS them back, then they DoS you back, and the cycle repeats sometimes for months. Additionally it is possible that your attacks will get other innocent people involved.
I would MUCH rather see mircscripts.org die than see people resorting to illegal activities and destruction of property to keep it alive.
