Comment by michaelbuckbee
10 years ago
I'm not recommending it, but it should be noted that this does sometimes work as when Kim DotCom paid for the LizardSquad DDOS of XBox and PS4 networks to be halted last Christmas: https://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-stops-xbox-and-playstati...
Kim Dotcom gave a gift that could easily be revoked if the attacker had continued attacking. Very different situation to giving cash (or bitcoin).