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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Re:Works for me by heypete · 2012-05-16 05:34 · 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.
Re:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids.... by yogidog98 · 2012-05-16 09:45 · Score: 5, Interesting

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