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The Pirate Bay Suffering Global Outage From Massive DDoS Attack

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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. anonymous is a bunch of childish kids.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    probably anonymous. idiots to the core.

    1. Re:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids.... by Githaron · · Score: 5, Funny

      probably anonymous. idiots to the core.

      Great. Now Anonymous is going to DDOS Slashdot.

    2. Re:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids.... by cpu6502 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      No anonymous is likely the U.S. government..... either they invented anonymous or they hijacked it, in order to setup false flags to justify why they need cyberwarfare and a locked-down internet.

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      My AC stalker: " I personally agree with your posts most of the time, but that won't keep me from modding you troll"
    3. Re:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids.... by Bam_Thwok · · Score: 4, Insightful

      You base this on what, exactly? How cool of a Tom Clancy novel it would make? Seriously. Do you have even a shred of evidence that this is the case? FOIA-obtained documents that describe an agency receiving funding for this operation? An interview with an official or member of the gov or anonymous leaking the details relationship? Anything?

    4. Re:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids.... by cpu6502 · · Score: 3, Funny

      No I retract.

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      My AC stalker: " I personally agree with your posts most of the time, but that won't keep me from modding you troll"
    5. Re:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Just because there's no evidence of it, doesn't mean it's not true, I've had the though that this 'could' be a false-flag operation.

      However, Anon has made the CIA/FBI both look somewhat foolish in the last year, I would think that if Anon were a false-flag operation, they would keep their targets away from their employers.

      Of course, Anon's membership is somewhat .. fluid, as far as I understand. So people could claim to be Anon, when in fact they are not. The RIAA/MPAA on the other hand, would presumably not have any qualms about launching cyber attacks through a proxy organisation on TPB, given TPB's very public thumbing of noses towards them. If I were the RIAA/MPAA and was falsely claiming responsibility for the TPB attacks, on Anon's behalf... Well, I would expect Anon to retaliate against the RIAA/MPAA. I look forward to reading about that, if that is the case. :)

      I don't really agree with Anon all the time, at least not of all the targets they choose. But you know what, I AM glad that SOMEONE sticks up for their online rights in a powerful way; the rest of us that follow the letter of the laws in our country are a limited. Anon does what they do for ALL of us. This generation's version of peaceful protest.

      Watch out for gustapo jackboot thugs knocking down your doors though guys, they'll cross state and country lines, operating with impunity of the law, when it suits them. Funny, how the laws only apply to us "proles" hey, and not to "the law" itself. And they wonder why organisations like lulz and Anon and Occupy crop up.

      "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers." - - Princess Leia

    6. Re:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Anonymous hijacked his account and posted that. Now Anonymous (coward) is posting this.

    7. Re:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids.... by Soilworker · · Score: 5, Informative

      https://twitter.com/#!/YourAnonNews

      Anonymous @YourAnonNews
      YES The Pirate Bay is down. YES it's under DDoS attack. NO we don't know who from. We'll update as we hear more. http://bit.ly/L75LB3 #TPB

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

      How do you hijack a group that everyone is a part of whether or not they know it?

      Amorphous groups have exactly this problem. Anyone can say they're a part of it to benefit their own agenda and therefore the group itself is nothing more than all of us who bite into certain ideas at certain times. Calling yourself a part of anonymous is like calling yourself a part of humanity. Except the connotation with Anonymous is that you have some sort of specific agenda at a specific time and/or place.

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      You're nothing; like me.
    9. Re:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids.... by Opportunist · · Score: 3, Insightful

      He neither ruined thousands of lives by ruining their financial situation nor squandered billions of tax funds into his own pockets. So PITA prison it probably is.

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      We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
    10. Re:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids.... by geminidomino · · Score: 4, Insightful

      "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers." - - Princess Leia

      Followed, not long after, by:

      "You may fire when ready." -- Tarkin.

      Something to think about, that.

    11. Re:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids.... by darkpixel2k · · Score: 4, Funny

      I cannot be wrong about this. Someone on an IRC server said so.

      You got someone on IRC to agree with you? You must be a god...

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      There's no place like ::1 (I've completed my transition to IPv6)
    12. Re:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids.... by Gideon+Wells · · Score: 5, Funny

      Grandparents will tell tales of the great scourging. The day the net erupted into flames as two forces collided. Children will think it nothing but tall tales, but those who lived it will know better. We know, we remember the day that Anonymous launched their DDOS attack against /. and the day they were slashdotted by curious nerds wanting to see what was going on The day the pipes burst open.

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      by Anonymous Coward: I, for one, welcome the shift from car analogies to pizza analogies. um.. overlords?
    13. Re:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids.... by yogidog98 · · Score: 5, Interesting

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

    14. Re:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids.... by mcrbids · · Score: 3, Informative

      So people could claim to be Anon, when in fact they are not.

      Statements like these make it clear that you do not understand Anonymous. It's not like there's a registry of dues-paying members of anonymous. For example, with the Chanology project, lots of people took part who had nothing to do whatsoever with the DDoS bunch.

      There's no membership. There's no dues. You are Anonymous because you say you are, and that's pretty much it, since the standard, dictionary definition of anonymous is really all that applies.

      --
      I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.
    15. Re:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids.... by LateArthurDent · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Not really.

      Leia: "If you do this bad thing, you probably won't get what you want"
      Tarkin: ignores the advice, does the bad thing anyway
      (some time later)
      Tarkin doesn't have what he wants. He's also dead.

      His point is that the people of Alderaan didn't exactly come out unscathed from the exchange. You can't just shrug off the Empire because you know eventually they'll lose. The longer they go before they eventually lose, the more casualties you accumulate in the meantime.

  2. All of the above. by JustAnotherIdiot · · Score: 3, Informative

    Cyberwarfare by pimple-faced teenagers screwing up the routing tables.

    --
    What do I know, I'm just an idiot, right?
  3. 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 billcopc · · Score: 4, Informative

      Works fine if I go through the Netherlands, but locally from Canada I get the timeout.

      I'd say it's either a routing error, some of their servers down, or censorship. Pick whichever you prefer.

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      -Billco, Fnarg.com
    2. 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.

  4. 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."

  5. Mirrors, magnet links by Hatta · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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?

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    1. Re:Mirrors, magnet links by Isaac+Remuant · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I assume that, given the widespread public knowledge of TPB's website, it disrupts people who are used to it being their only torrent search mechanism.

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      "Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world. " - Asimov.
    2. Re:Mirrors, magnet links by Ihmhi · · Score: 4, Informative

      Well, TPB has the established community. So you have people who have been there for 5, 10 years saying a file is good or bad, virus alert is a false positive, etc. Otherwise it's just a list of torrents which you can get anywhere.

      --
      Random Thoughts From A Diseased Mind (Not For Dummies)
  6. Global eh? by lostsoulz · · Score: 5, Informative

    https://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk/

    ^_^

  7. Use one of the proxies, they worked for me by Formorian · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  8. Anonymous Manifesto by jklovanc · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Anonymous Manifesto by Hentes · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Is there a proof that it was them?

  9. Connected to C&W issues yesterday? by expat.iain · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  10. If ya need a backup :) by Cito · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  11. works via Tor by tobiah · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

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    "The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool" - Jane Wagner -
  12. History of American False Flag Operations by tlambert · · Score: 4, Informative

    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

  13. Re:zzzzzzzzz by Digital+Vomit · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Give the MAFIAA and the Pirates adjoining cells and let the mainstream have their internet back.

    Um, the "Pirates" are the mainstream...

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    Modern copyright is theft of culture from everyone and it retards the progress of the useful arts and sciences.