I don't think he annoyed them as such, more encouraged it. The same happened when Lizardsquad targeted Gross Gore - he gained a LOT of viewers and attention. Lizardsquad suggest they are targeting larger online gaming companies to prove that our money isn't spent well, and that the companies should be spending profits to strengthen their infrastructure and protect themselves from such attacks.. oh how noble of them! [/sarcasm]. It's all bogus though, there is literally no way to protect yourself from a flood of requests... [except the amazing CDN CloudFlare LOL) a server has an assigned IP. This IP is made available to anybody who connects to the server. This IP can be the target of mass flooding (in this case via DDoS and botnet). It's a lose-lose situation. The only major difference this time is the sheer amount of requests.. because of a Java exploit and some clever botnet distribution of a DDoS program [read: LOIC alternative], an attack on one world (NightmareRH's streaming world) resulted in ALL worlds going down... I'd be interested to see just how much data was flooding the server :P