Denial of Service Attacks - US vs. Jason Arabo

A Michigan resident ,Jason Arabo, with help from a 16-year-old hacker ,Sigh, attacked to his competitor`s websites in order to take down the websites. He taught that his own business will improve if he prevented people from visiting and using the services of his competitors.
About 2000 PCs were infected by some programs that allowed him to have remote access!
Sigh used "DDOS" Denial of service attack and caused crashing the computer servers of competitors,even competitor as far as Europe!

Result:
FBI investigation discovered the cybercrime and Jason Arabo was sentenced to 30 months in prison and charged with $504,495 in damages. Sigh Cheema was sentenced to 5 years in youth detention and was required to pay $32,000 in restitution.
http://www.brighthub.com/internet/security-privacy/articles/70972.aspx