The Pirate Bay Suffering Global Outage From Massive DDoS Attack

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @05:10AM 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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Mirrors, magnet links by Hatta · 2012-05-16 05:20 · 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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Re:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids.... by cpu6502 · 2012-05-16 05:36 · 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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