Disabling websites through programming computers to automatically click on the same page thousands of times – so-called denial of service attacks – will be made a criminal offence in Sweden from 1st June. There is currently no specific law banning the attacks, and other legislation is deemed insufficient to ensure convictions in many cases.
Why hasn’t there been a law regarding this before? I am not sure of the other Countries stance on this, but to me, DDoS is equalled to vandalism. Either way, if you are in Sweden and just so happen to be contemplating performing a DDoS attack, be prepared to spend up to two years in prison. Well, at least after June 1. Until then it’s free reign.
Source: The Local