Swedes have until June 1st to commit a Distributed
denial-of-service attack (DDoS). After that it will be a criminal
offense. It isn't technically one now.
Last year, there were attacks on websites owned by the Swedish
government and the Swedish police. The attacks were the result of a
dispute
with The Pirate Bay. The websites were offline for a number of
hours and reportedly the URLs were circulated in IRC channels
before the attacks.
We aren't knowledgeable on the exact changes in the law, but sounds
as though the amendment would criminalize DDoS attacks, whether
carried out with a Botnet, or by an activist crowd using their own
resources.
We're curious if that would also apply to a Slashdot
effect.
You can read about it
here and here.