Not really. The best approach is to nail a few of these folks with felony indictments for the denial of service attacks, and the theft of the amplifier network's services. That would stop this practice cold.
Unfortunantly I highly doubt this will have much impact. Firstly, all of the "smurf kiddies" are using hacked shells, so when you trace it back to them they don't care, they just move to the next machine. Secondly, the most
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