Don't worry, whoever's doing is probably only doing this for self satisfaction for his friends who probably also don't go outside, even though DDoS is those with no skills to hack. And don't give them the privilege of calling them jerks, that's too strong a word for them.
what you do is refresh the servers page until the server you want has more people, then quickly get on.
one thing i noticed is that it isn't only doing that to emc, it's doing it to every server that's 1.2.5 or 1.2.4
It seems they have fixed it today. I tried to connect to another one of my servers, but same thing happened so ya it was probably Mojang. Thanks chickeneer!
Updates: check Bug Fixes: Check (so far) Dragon Tomb: (NYC) Wilderness Update: (NYC) Get Programming classes (me): (NYS)
I made a disc generator in singleplayer and looked in creative mode on singleplayer - I don't see any wait disc yet .... it's already on xbox version, but I think they might have forgot to add it to the update - they just added the log, but not the coding.