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The Pirate Bay Suffering Global Outage From Massive DDoS Attack
MoldySpore writes "If anyone has tried to get to The Pirate Bay in the last 24 hours, they have most likely been met with a timeout. As an article on TorrentFreak notes, only a week ago The Pirate Bay scolded Anonymous for its attack on ISP Virgin Media, and now the site is currently the victim of a DDoS attack that is effectively keeping people from viewing the site. There is a lot of speculation as to whether this is retaliation from Anonymous, the work of an agency such as the RIAA and their associates, or an anti-pirate company such as PiratePay."
Cyberwarfare? Pimple-faced teenagers? Someone screwed up the routing tables?
probably anonymous. idiots to the core.
I'm really starting to feel like the best way to describe the Pirate Bay drama and pirate-activism in general is "jumped the shark." I agree with them and all, but this shit is getting so stupid it's boring.
Cyberwarfare by pimple-faced teenagers screwing up the routing tables.
What do I know, I'm just an idiot, right?
This must be exactly the kind of thing that highly paid consultants are hired for. Except of course, they'll be upset that no one got paid. Probably...
Nah, it can't be Anonymous, they only managed to stay organized and motivated for, at most, a couple hours. 24+ hours would be impressive for them, at least for something that isn't widely hated like Scientology. Though it is the kind of retaliatory pissing contest they'd stoop to.
I'm in Cork, Ireland. Maybe it's a US thing.
Centurylink has been having some routing issues the past few days (which is why I STILL haven't been able to download my Torchlight 2 Beta!) and I was beginning to suspect that they might have come about by them playing stupid routing tricks to block TPB.
I've had DSL with them for 8 years now and they've given me as close to a raw pipe as I'm likely to get, and that would have pissed me off to no end, since the fact that they don't fuck with me is the primary reason I pay more and tend to be mellow about the occasional outage, because, and I quote, "At least they're not Comcast."
https://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk/
Site goes up - site goes down - site goes up - whack a mole etc....
This cat is a long way of out the bag :)
'Anonymous' are a distraction.......
When the entire content of TPB is available as a small archive of magnet links, hosted on numerous sites around the world, what's the point of a DDOS?
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
https://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk/
^_^
http://about.piratereverse.info/proxy/list.html
Also if you don't want to go there, try:
http://tpb.fl.ax/
It's my go to when TPB drops.
I just tried to load the site and had no problems?
works fine here in CA, U.S.A.
was just on it before coming here
'Nuff said.
But how will I get my Linux ISOs and public domain music and movies? That's what The Pirate Bay is for, right?
Anonymous is for an open and free internet with one exception; criticize us and we will shut you down.
To me that is the height of hypocracy.
I kinda hope it turns out to be the RIAA (I know it isn't) since DDoS attacks are illegal in many of the countries where they occur regularly. If someone could prove an organization of that type was guilty of an actual crime like that, it would be awesome.
...of The Bay,
I can find it, anyway.
Obviously this is because of Diablo III Launch.
CPU might choose to retract the statement, but it's still valid. If you know much about much about how government Intelligence Agencies do their thing, you will know that false flag deception operations are routine. Anonymous was originally created circa 2005 by Hacktivismo, a branch of the cDc, under the tutelage of the Ninja Strike Force Dojo, but now anyon[sic] can correctly claim to be Anonymous.
http://tpb.fl.ax/ [tpb.fl.ax] was posted as a workaround on the official Pirate Bay Facebook page [facebook.com] since the blog was also under DDoS attack.
thepiratebay.se resolves to 194.71.107.15 for me. Looking at our routing tables, we aren't seeing routes from our upstreams for a block that contains this address.
:p
No problem for me in Canada.
From around 1730hrs yesterday, Cable & Wireless started having huge (95% packet loss) issues for about 90 minutes in the Holland/Germany area. Was interesting to note that trying to reach (from remote locations in Europe) two sites we have in Sweden, one (on Telia) was fine, but another was mostly offline. We're still waiting to receive a report from C&W about the outage.
http://kat.ph/ free and open much better than a lot of the 'freebie' torrent sites.
or
Pirate Bay Mirrors are up:
http://freedomto.us/
https://piratereverse.info/
http://unblockedpiratebay.com/
Enjoy till the DOS dies down.
I'm going through CenturyLink in the U.S. and the piratebay.org and most proxies can't be reached. Switching DNS servers or direct IP calls also fail. But I get there them just fine via Tor. I don't think this is DDoS or your usual routing table mishap, it's a new internet censorship technology.
"The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool" - Jane Wagner -
Wow, what an idiot...
So you don't use websites, email, telephones, or even snail mail? They can all be used to do illegal activity too you know.... Should we shut down everything because it "could" be used for something nefarious?
Look at most of the activities you do today and if you study history you will find that most, if not all, were considered illegal, or we're being blamed for something illegal, in the past. Fortunately, common sense won out and those activities (in most of the civilized countries) became legal and/or acceptable and/or ignored. Unfortunately, it can take hundreds of years sometimes :(
The simple fact is that we, as a people, have stated we refuse to accept the terms, conditions, and prices associated with Media (same as human's have done since the beginning of time when facing an injustice); now, we're just in the end-game of waiting for common sense to finally win out, once again.... Rinse, Lather, Repeat.
Works fine for me here in Western Canada. I wouldn't know anything was wrong aside from reading this article.
What about all that content that you want and are willing to pay for, but the distributor is unwilling to sell you?
(I'm looking at you HBO)
It's not copyright infringement if the officially approved product is useless and/or unavailable to me.
It's not like the U.S. hasn't done it before:
History of American False Flag Operations:
http://www.911review.com/articles/anon/false_flag_perations.html
-- Terry
Ah.. the irony, I'm SOCKS5 through a GoDaddy (euro) webserver and it works fine, quicker than normal, like the server(s) isn't getting much traffic...
I was going to upload a free game to The Pirate Bay, but if that's how you're going to be, Someone, then fine. No game for you!
Looks like I get to add another nebulous ? to my arch enemies list.
When the next episode of Game of Thrones is out ;-)
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
You base this on what, exactly? How cool of a Tom Clancy novel it would make? Seriously. Do you have even a shred of evidence that this is the case? FOIA-obtained documents that describe an agency receiving funding for this operation? An interview with an official or member of the gov or anonymous leaking the details relationship? Anything?
Added some additional text to get past the lameness filter. Copied this from some naive dumbfagget above.
It's the producer's right to refuse to sell, then run crying and screaming to mommy government claiming they lost billions in sales to you.
Would it be possible to redirect a DDoS attack by pointing your DNS at another IP address? e.g. one of Sony's.
"The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool" - Jane Wagner -
PB has gone away many times. They are very robust and will pop back up again.
I wonder how DDOs's still work now that computer OS's have gotten so much more secure. I mean do people still run WIn98 or something? Or has someone made a phone app/game that sends a ping every time the user touches the screen? Click the monkey as fast as you can and earn cookie points or bitcoins or whatever.
This sure brings me back to the day of script kiddies.
You can easily access thepiratebay through this proxy; http://eclair4151.appspot.com/piratebay.se/
If that doesn't work for some reason then here is a big list of other proxies.
http://about.piratereverse.info/proxy/list.html
You can easily access thepiratebay through this proxy; http://eclair4151.appspot.com/piratebay.se/
If that doesn't work for some reason then here is a big list of other proxies.
http://about.piratereverse.info/proxy/list.html
source: gentlemen from huffington
I base it mostly on the fact that the people in charge did it more than once, and as far as I can tell, the same the same people are still in charge, despite exchanging their "Hi I'm Bob!" stickers for "Hi I'm Frank!" ones.
I'm still waiting for my Habeas corpus back from after 9/11: http://www.aclu.org/pdfs/safefree/patriot_report_20090310.pdf
While we are at it, I'd like the ability to make private phone calls again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
I'd also prefer U.S. citizens get tried and convicted before they are killed: http://www.mediaite.com/online/us-citizen-and-top-terrorist-suspect-anwar-al-awlaki-killed-in-drone-attack/
I do get why Obama failed to deliver on his Guantanamo Bay closure campaign promise: extraterritoriality buys you the ability to not enforce constitutional provisions for the prisoners. Not really sure how I feel about that one.
-- Terry
I could have sworn I read the other day that Microsoft was assembling some type of attack on torrents. Which was confusing to be because I don't understand how that's legal. But apparently they wage wars on botnets throughout the world as well, which is something I also don't understand the legality of (although I recognize that the end result of this is good, it baffles me how a tech company can be awarded powers normally reserved for the government).
Maybe someone less lazy or better informed than me can provide an answer. . .
Google gave me a bunch of results about this story, but I did find one nugget:
http://www.decryptedtech.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=753:microsoft-backing-a-new-company-looking-to-attack-torrent-swarms&Itemid=139
"From the depths of my skeptical and rationalist soul, I ask the Lord to protect me from California touchie-feeliedom."
Everyone is trying to download diablo 3...at once.
that just released a huge title? The third in the trilogy that's been in work for 12 years? I'm sure if I had no morals, I would have no problem hiring someone to DDoS the site that would be distributing the software a lot of people have been looking for so they would just go out and buy it. Or, more likely, steal out of their mom's purse. Which is the more likely thing that this would cause.
just one of many scenarios. Its fun to think of alternatives.
The simple fact is that we, as a people, have stated we refuse to accept the terms, conditions, and prices associated with Media (same as human's have done since the beginning of time when facing an injustice); now, we're just in the end-game of waiting for common sense to finally win out, once again.... Rinse, Lather, Repeat.
We don't need Pirate Bay for that. Just not buying stuff would be enough.
You don't DDoS Chuck Norris, Chuck Norris DDoS' you.
Yes you never know when those script kitties will get cracking.
Yesterday morning, Before the "DDOS" attack was over, I found a video where a comcast suscriber was unable to reach the pirate bay, loaded his browser side by side with the tor browser on the screen. His "regular browser" was unable to reach TPB. The tor browser Had no issues. I Tried this myself and Had EXACTLY the same results. So it's either some sort of routing "mistake" or censorship or both.