Responding to The Pirate Bay ruling by using their preferred method of protest, hackers, or 'hacktivists' if you prefer, have being trying to bring down the websites of the International Federation Of The Phonographic Industry and the lawyers who represented them in The Pirate Bay trial.
According to The Register, 250 hackers took part in an online discussion at the weekend and agreed to attack the IFPI's global and Swedish websites. The IT website reports that as a result the trade body's website was down or running slowly yesterday, though it seems OK at the moment.
The attack was given the name Operation Baylout, and the admin of one of the discussion forums where the plans were hatched told The Register: "They want to get the message across that the IFPI can not mess with the internet and that the internet is serious business".