From the article: The first repercussion was that YouTube disappeared from the Internet for almost an hour. I suspect the second repercussion was that Pakistan's Internet access crawled to a halt as all of a sudden they were handling IP requests for one of the busiest sites in the world.<p>Law and technology is rarely good. However, it seems that religion, law and routing tables is a particularly bad combination.
Nothing says "Epic Fail" quite like DDoSing one's whole nation into submission. At least Pakistan got what it wanted: none of its citizens are going to be seeing any blasphemous internet content . . .
Should Google look to litigate? After all, they could probably quantify how much they lost during the downtime, and I'd imagine it's a pretty big number.