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:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids.... by interkin3tic · 2012-05-16 07:33 · Score: 1, Troll

One problem with your conspiracy theory: having the false organization attack a pirating website isn't exactly a good way to convince people the web needs to be locked down and regulated for your own security.

Having anonymous DDOS www.army.mil would be a better way of doing that. THAT could be used to scare people who would think the military was somehow under attack.

Anonymous does that: "Oh mah gawd! They took down the army website! Well that's probably important to the army being able to kill the terrorists!!!! SHUT DOWN THE INTERNET!!!"

Anonymous does this: "Whatsit about pirates now?"