Well, this is kind of hilarious actually. What is this? Is it some kind of "If you try to sue us we'll send you a sawed off pigs head"? There are always consequences for improper actions. Perhaps you'll be lucky again, and nothing will happen this time. Perhaps even if that "anonymous site" falls, you'll just group up somewhere else. Someone will still meet the consequences.
You're right, there's probably no way to track every schmuck that decided to humour themselves tonight. And for a lot of people this feels like just a joke, that nobody should take seriously. What happened was a criminal action, despite the bad security, despite the topic of this site. The easiest way to rid of problems like this is to go for the root. Now depending on where 4chan is hosted, there might just be a law saying "Aiding criminals is prohibited and punishable". Then again, who would bother suing a bunch of trolls sitting in their basement watching cartoon porn?
You're right, there's probably no way to track every schmuck that decided to humour themselves tonight. And for a lot of people this feels like just a joke, that nobody should take seriously. What happened was a criminal action, despite the bad security, despite the topic of this site. The easiest way to rid of problems like this is to go for the root. Now depending on where 4chan is hosted, there might just be a law saying "Aiding criminals is prohibited and punishable". Then again, who would bother suing a bunch of trolls sitting in their basement watching cartoon porn?