Distributed Action

Description

"The first online campaign or protest actions were centralised, around a single server . For those online actions that involved some kind of direct action against another computer system, the traffic from the one server could be easily ignored by rejecting data from the server's IP address With a distributed action everyone taking part uses their own computer. Each computer uses a program or script to do this. The data going to the target of the protest cannot then be easily rejected because it could potentially come from thousands of different computers, each with different IP addresses. Distributed actions are now becoming increasingly popular on the Internet. Not only because they are a effective method of online direct action. They are also far more democratic than server-based actions because, to be effective, it requires hundreds or thousands of people taking part for the action to be successful." (http://www.internetrights.org.uk/glossary.shtml)