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

    probably anonymous. idiots to the core.

    1. Re:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids.... by cpu6502 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      No anonymous is likely the U.S. government..... either they invented anonymous or they hijacked it, in order to setup false flags to justify why they need cyberwarfare and a locked-down internet.

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    2. Re:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids.... by Bam_Thwok · · Score: 4, Insightful

      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?

    3. Re:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids.... by Opportunist · · Score: 3, Insightful

      He neither ruined thousands of lives by ruining their financial situation nor squandered billions of tax funds into his own pockets. So PITA prison it probably is.

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    4. Re:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids.... by geminidomino · · Score: 4, Insightful

      "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers." - - Princess Leia

      Followed, not long after, by:

      "You may fire when ready." -- Tarkin.

      Something to think about, that.

    5. Re:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids.... by LateArthurDent · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Not really.

      Leia: "If you do this bad thing, you probably won't get what you want"
      Tarkin: ignores the advice, does the bad thing anyway
      (some time later)
      Tarkin doesn't have what he wants. He's also dead.

      His point is that the people of Alderaan didn't exactly come out unscathed from the exchange. You can't just shrug off the Empire because you know eventually they'll lose. The longer they go before they eventually lose, the more casualties you accumulate in the meantime.

  2. Mirrors, magnet links by Hatta · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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?

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    1. Re:Mirrors, magnet links by Isaac+Remuant · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I assume that, given the widespread public knowledge of TPB's website, it disrupts people who are used to it being their only torrent search mechanism.

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  3. Anonymous Manifesto by jklovanc · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Anonymous Manifesto by Hentes · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Is there a proof that it was them?

  4. Re:zzzzzzzzz by Digital+Vomit · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Give the MAFIAA and the Pirates adjoining cells and let the mainstream have their internet back.

    Um, the "Pirates" are the mainstream...

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