The only reason why they do it is because it's easy. Now there's less botting they just as well DDOS, it takes them a few minutes to set up, a couple more to make sure they're hidden and boom, more lagg to annoy the players.
Jagex haven't ever prosecuted someone for a DDOS attack, and considering the average age of someone doing it is 13, it just shows it's a relatively good disruption method.
There are some incredibly simple, overlooked, ways of disrupting them back. Probably not very legal though.
06-Nov-2013 18:02:16