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?

Comments

All of the above.

[JustAnotherIdiot]

Cyberwarfare by pimple-faced teenagers screwing up the routing tables.

Global eh?

[lostsoulz]

https://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk/

^_^

Use one of the proxies, they worked for me

[Formorian]

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.

Re:Works for me

[billcopc]

Works fine if I go through the Netherlands, but locally from Canada I get the timeout.

I'd say it's either a routing error, some of their servers down, or censorship. Pick whichever you prefer.

Re:Mirrors, magnet links

[Ihmhi]

Well, TPB has the established community. So you have people who have been there for 5, 10 years saying a file is good or bad, virus alert is a false positive, etc. Otherwise it's just a list of torrents which you can get anywhere.

Connected to C&W issues yesterday?

[expat.iain]

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.

Re:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids....

[Soilworker]

https://twitter.com/#!/YourAnonNews

Anonymous @YourAnonNews
YES The Pirate Bay is down. YES it's under DDoS attack. NO we don't know who from. We'll update as we hear more. http://bit.ly/L75LB3 #TPB

If ya need a backup :)

[Cito]

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.

Re:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids....

[Anonymous Coward]

No, that would just mean they read a lot of bash.org

History of American False Flag Operations

[tlambert]

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

Re:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids....

[Anonymous Coward]

Wooooooooooooosh! (Check the IMDB rating of the movie if you're still confused. It's in the running for worst movie of all time.)

Re:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids....

[mcrbids]

So people could claim to be Anon, when in fact they are not.

Statements like these make it clear that you do not understand Anonymous. It's not like there's a registry of dues-paying members of anonymous. For example, with the Chanology project, lots of people took part who had nothing to do whatsoever with the DDoS bunch.

There's no membership. There's no dues. You are Anonymous because you say you are, and that's pretty much it, since the standard, dictionary definition of anonymous is really all that applies.