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This is like an arsonist lighting an orphanage or library on fire. Why would you do something like that?
To sell your services as an arsonist. Being able to point to a big successful attack helps professional DDoSers sell their services.
Who's their biggest enemy at the moment
That's a tough question to answer without devolving into politics, which is off topic for Hacker News. I think that's also the wrong question to ask. "Who's doing it?" is less interesting than "What's enabling them to succeed?"
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Paywalled sites?
let me go further: the whole of the copyrighted industry including all media conglomerates (obviously) and all scientific, literary, etc, publishing houses. also, there's a global war, so it well may be a fog-of-war technique or like somebody else also mentioned: someone needs something to stay quite for a little bit as part of some larger operation
Given its benefit to the lay persons I recommend everyone who use their services give a small amount once for a while. I already did so but if not for family issues I'd donate way more.