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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Aha, of course!
But which possible reason it is?
- are Blizzard hosting the D3 servers on TPB?
- are 400 million people trying to search for a pirated version of D3?
- did Blizzard patch WoW so that everybody playing WoW sends a randomised search to TPB every four seconds, causing somewhere around 500k hits/second on the pirate bay search engines so that the 400 million people wanting a pirated version of D3 can't find it, even though once they did find it they wouldn't be able to play it anyway because the D3 server on TPB is down?
Only the FBI know for sure..
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