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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: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