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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. 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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  2. Global eh? by lostsoulz · · Score: 5, Informative

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

    ^_^

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

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

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