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The Pirate Bay Suffering Global Outage From Massive DDoS Attack

Posted by Unknown on 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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  1. 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.

  2. 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."

  3. 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 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.

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

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

    ^_^

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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"
  8. 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?

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

    Is there a proof that it was them?

  10. 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

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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)
  14. 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?
  15. 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

  16. Re:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids.... by yogidog98 · · Score: 5, Interesting

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