The servers crash under the load, taking websites and services down with them.
It is foreseeable that regardless of the form Do Not Track takes, websites will simply require consumers to disable it in order to access content.
The group has had mixed success with its efforts to take websites offline.
We strongly encourage the creation of a maintenance page for when we take websites off-line for maintenance tasks.
The company consequently told customers it had decided to take websites offline for "up to 12 hours" starting at 10 00 GMT on Monday.
On June 15, LulzSec launched an attack on cia.gov, the public website of the US Central Intelligence Agency, taking the website offline for several hours with a distributed denial-of-service attack.
The participants were two classes of 11th graders taking the website design class in a vocational high school.
The attack was organised by the hacker group Anonymous and succeed in taking the website offline for only 15 minutes.
But the girls were apparently taking the website much more seriously than that.
