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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. Works for me by Mortimer82 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm in Cork, Ireland. Maybe it's a US thing.

    1. Re:Works for me by heypete · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I'm getting timeouts from Switzerland and from a US VPN, both uncensored.

      According to traceroutes on the Swiss network things start timing out immediately after my upstream gateway while still internal to my ISPs network, which suggests a routing problem. Similar behavior on the US VPN.

  2. Guess I owe Centurylink an apology... by geminidomino · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Centurylink has been having some routing issues the past few days (which is why I STILL haven't been able to download my Torchlight 2 Beta!) and I was beginning to suspect that they might have come about by them playing stupid routing tricks to block TPB.

    I've had DSL with them for 8 years now and they've given me as close to a raw pipe as I'm likely to get, and that would have pissed me off to no end, since the fact that they don't fuck with me is the primary reason I pay more and tend to be mellow about the occasional outage, because, and I quote, "At least they're not Comcast."

  3. Re:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids.... by yogidog98 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is why there needs to be a Score:6 category.