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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?
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?
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
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.
My AC stalker: " I personally agree with your posts most of the time, but that won't keep me from modding you troll"
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?
Is there a proof that it was them?
"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.