JustHoLLy

That kid just buys the booter online, and doesn't do any "hacking" themselves.

Since this booter most likely is using a botnet of compromised machines, are you talking steps to "clean" the infected machines or notify their owners? Or is that not needed since you've taken down their C&C?

Do you think taking down this booter will have a big impact?

Further, out of curiosity, is it allowed to use a booter like this (that allows anonymous payments and isn't legit in general) to stress-test hardware you own? Or is any and all use of it illegal?

If you're not in the scene, you likely don't know about that though. I for one thought for quite some time that most stressers just had some expensive servers with massive bandwidth.