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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. Global eh? by lostsoulz · · Score: 5, Informative

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

    ^_^

  2. Use one of the proxies, they worked for me by Formorian · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  3. Re:Works for me by billcopc · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

    --
    -Billco, Fnarg.com
  4. Re:Mirrors, magnet links by Ihmhi · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

    --
    Random Thoughts From A Diseased Mind (Not For Dummies)
  5. Re:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids.... by Soilworker · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

  6. If ya need a backup :) by Cito · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  7. History of American False Flag Operations by tlambert · · Score: 4, Informative

    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