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The Pirate Bay Suffering Global Outage From Massive DDoS Attack

Posted by Unknown on from the dvd-sales-up-500-percent dept.

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?

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  1. Re:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids.... by Githaron · · Score: 5, Funny

    probably anonymous. idiots to the core.

    Great. Now Anonymous is going to DDOS Slashdot.

  2. Re:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids.... by cpu6502 · · Score: 3, Funny

    No I retract.

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  3. Re:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Anonymous hijacked his account and posted that. Now Anonymous (coward) is posting this.

  4. Re:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    If it had been Anonymous, it would have said "disregard that, I suck cocks."

  5. Re:Anonymous Manifesto by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    What's a "Hypocracy"?

    Government by hypocrites. In other words, government.

  6. Re:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids.... by darkpixel2k · · Score: 4, Funny

    I cannot be wrong about this. Someone on an IRC server said so.

    You got someone on IRC to agree with you? You must be a god...

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  7. Re:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Its also a quote from a terrible movie. So there's that. I mean here's this gem form a slightly better movie:

    " There is nothing to fear, madam. The Master likes you. Nothing will happen to you. He likes you. " --Torgo

  8. Re:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids.... by Gideon+Wells · · Score: 5, Funny

    Grandparents will tell tales of the great scourging. The day the net erupted into flames as two forces collided. Children will think it nothing but tall tales, but those who lived it will know better. We know, we remember the day that Anonymous launched their DDOS attack against /. and the day they were slashdotted by curious nerds wanting to see what was going on The day the pipes burst open.

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    by Anonymous Coward: I, for one, welcome the shift from car analogies to pizza analogies. um.. overlords?