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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?
probably anonymous. idiots to the core.
Cyberwarfare by pimple-faced teenagers screwing up the routing tables.
What do I know, I'm just an idiot, right?
I'm in Cork, Ireland. Maybe it's a US thing.
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."
https://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk/
Site goes up - site goes down - site goes up - whack a mole etc....
This cat is a long way of out the bag :)
'Anonymous' are a distraction.......
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!
https://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk/
^_^
http://about.piratereverse.info/proxy/list.html
Also if you don't want to go there, try:
http://tpb.fl.ax/
It's my go to when TPB drops.
you forgot sony they hated them almost as much
---Saying gnome 3 is better than windows 8 not so much a compliment as it is damning with light praise.
As tired as you might be of pirate whatever, I'm about a thousand times more tired of mainstream corporate whatever.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
Anonymous is for an open and free internet with one exception; criticize us and we will shut you down.
To me that is the height of hypocracy.
Obviously this is because of Diablo III Launch.
http://tpb.fl.ax/ [tpb.fl.ax] was posted as a workaround on the official Pirate Bay Facebook page [facebook.com] since the blog was also under DDoS attack.
No. I need piratebay so I can download Mythbusters season 1, not take a "sundive'. (Is that like a nosedive, but sun first.)
My AC stalker: " I personally agree with your posts most of the time, but that won't keep me from modding you troll"
thepiratebay.se resolves to 194.71.107.15 for me. Looking at our routing tables, we aren't seeing routes from our upstreams for a block that contains this address.
:p
From around 1730hrs yesterday, Cable & Wireless started having huge (95% packet loss) issues for about 90 minutes in the Holland/Germany area. Was interesting to note that trying to reach (from remote locations in Europe) two sites we have in Sweden, one (on Telia) was fine, but another was mostly offline. We're still waiting to receive a report from C&W about the outage.
Normally one wouldn't want to toss the baby out with the bath water.
However, this "baby" is, at this point, a tazmanian devil wrestling with an angry badger.
Toss away, toss away.
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
http://kat.ph/ free and open much better than a lot of the 'freebie' torrent sites.
or
Pirate Bay Mirrors are up:
http://freedomto.us/
https://piratereverse.info/
http://unblockedpiratebay.com/
Enjoy till the DOS dies down.
What kinda culture is this? The fast-food-news generation? What may I expect next? Oh, sure, a hurricane swept across the lower parts of the US and a few millions are still in tents, but that is so last week, hey, look, the next season of American Idiot is starting!
WTF is wrong with you people?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
As if doing something illegal has ever kept any corporation from doing it. Remember the Sony rootkit? Kids have gone to prison for less, but as far as I remember Sony didn't even have to pay a fine that could be taken serious.
If the RIAA is behind that, a lukewarm, fake apology will probably be all we'll ever get out of it.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I'm going through CenturyLink in the U.S. and the piratebay.org and most proxies can't be reached. Switching DNS servers or direct IP calls also fail. But I get there them just fine via Tor. I don't think this is DDoS or your usual routing table mishap, it's a new internet censorship technology.
"The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool" - Jane Wagner -
It's from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series - specifically 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe'
[Arthur] What does sundive mean?
[Marvin] The ship is going to dive into the sun. Sun. Dive. It's very simple to understand. What do you expect if you steal Disaster Area's stunt ship?
It makes for a good concert finale.
"Disregard that, I suck cocks?" >_>
It's not like the U.S. hasn't done it before:
History of American False Flag Operations:
http://www.911review.com/articles/anon/false_flag_perations.html
-- Terry
Um, the "Pirates" are the mainstream...
Modern copyright is theft of culture from everyone and it retards the progress of the useful arts and sciences.
Ah.. the irony, I'm SOCKS5 through a GoDaddy (euro) webserver and it works fine, quicker than normal, like the server(s) isn't getting much traffic...
I was going to upload a free game to The Pirate Bay, but if that's how you're going to be, Someone, then fine. No game for you!
Looks like I get to add another nebulous ? to my arch enemies list.
When the next episode of Game of Thrones is out ;-)
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
Would it be possible to redirect a DDoS attack by pointing your DNS at another IP address? e.g. one of Sony's.
"The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool" - Jane Wagner -
You can easily access thepiratebay through this proxy; http://eclair4151.appspot.com/piratebay.se/
If that doesn't work for some reason then here is a big list of other proxies.
http://about.piratereverse.info/proxy/list.html
And if you're not pirating it, then why do you care at all?
Perhaps because they're ramming draconian laws down our throats on a routine basis? And I don't only care about myself, you know.
Filthy, filthy copyrapists!
I base it mostly on the fact that the people in charge did it more than once, and as far as I can tell, the same the same people are still in charge, despite exchanging their "Hi I'm Bob!" stickers for "Hi I'm Frank!" ones.
I'm still waiting for my Habeas corpus back from after 9/11: http://www.aclu.org/pdfs/safefree/patriot_report_20090310.pdf
While we are at it, I'd like the ability to make private phone calls again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
I'd also prefer U.S. citizens get tried and convicted before they are killed: http://www.mediaite.com/online/us-citizen-and-top-terrorist-suspect-anwar-al-awlaki-killed-in-drone-attack/
I do get why Obama failed to deliver on his Guantanamo Bay closure campaign promise: extraterritoriality buys you the ability to not enforce constitutional provisions for the prisoners. Not really sure how I feel about that one.
-- Terry
I could have sworn I read the other day that Microsoft was assembling some type of attack on torrents. Which was confusing to be because I don't understand how that's legal. But apparently they wage wars on botnets throughout the world as well, which is something I also don't understand the legality of (although I recognize that the end result of this is good, it baffles me how a tech company can be awarded powers normally reserved for the government).
Maybe someone less lazy or better informed than me can provide an answer. . .
Google gave me a bunch of results about this story, but I did find one nugget:
http://www.decryptedtech.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=753:microsoft-backing-a-new-company-looking-to-attack-torrent-swarms&Itemid=139
"From the depths of my skeptical and rationalist soul, I ask the Lord to protect me from California touchie-feeliedom."
Everyone is trying to download diablo 3...at once.
that just released a huge title? The third in the trilogy that's been in work for 12 years? I'm sure if I had no morals, I would have no problem hiring someone to DDoS the site that would be distributing the software a lot of people have been looking for so they would just go out and buy it. Or, more likely, steal out of their mom's purse. Which is the more likely thing that this would cause.
just one of many scenarios. Its fun to think of alternatives.
The simple fact is that we, as a people, have stated we refuse to accept the terms, conditions, and prices associated with Media (same as human's have done since the beginning of time when facing an injustice); now, we're just in the end-game of waiting for common sense to finally win out, once again.... Rinse, Lather, Repeat.
We don't need Pirate Bay for that. Just not buying stuff would be enough.
Yes you never know when those script kitties will get cracking.