Comment by posterboy

> Why isn't this destruction of essential information infrastructure

It may be deemed "vandalism" by seasoned editors, though Arb might chose more salient descriptors.

I don't recall right now what the legal opinion on destruction of data is, ie. irrecoverable erasure in the most trivial case, and I think they wouldn't introduce specific new laws around IT systems if it were that easy. But if it is, then analogies from destruction to somewhat impeding property is well precedented (in .de) even if it's entirely reversable in theory.

1mil words isn't that much work though, so I'd consider this a fairly quick end and not exactly news.