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The Pirate Bay Returns, Anonymous Hater Takes Credit For DDoS

Posted by timothy on from the bad-childhoods-in-the-news dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After being the victim of a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack by an unknown party, The Pirate Bay has returned. An Anonymous traitor who goes by the name AnonNyre has claimed responsibility for the DDoS attack that kept the site offline for days."

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  1. Thank god! by arcite · · Score: 5, Funny

    I almost thought I wouldn't be able to download the rest of ST:TNG. Gotta see how season 7 ends!

    1. Re:Thank god! by TheRealMindChild · · Score: 3, Funny

      Picard wakes up in a prison camp and it was all a dream

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    2. Re:Thank god! by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 4, Funny

      "LaForge here, we're geeting a whoosh sound from the phase inducers!"

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  2. Except it didn't. by JustAnotherIdiot · · Score: 4, Informative

    kept the site offline for days

    As several people pointed out in the last article, getting to the site was trivial.
    It was hardly down.

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    1. Re:Except it didn't. by morari · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Really, why should anyone? That's why we pay 8 bucks an hour to people, so we can concentrate on more important things.

      The same reason you should have a basic understanding of how your vehicle works and be able to at least change the oil and spark plugs when need be. Sure you could go pay some grease monkey to do it all for you, but then you're being exploited due to sheer laziness. If your comfortable existence depends upon something, such as vehicles or communications networks, then you should try to be as self sufficient as possible in its use. As a doctor, I'm sure you expect your patients to have a basic understanding of how their bodies work and how to properly maintain them. Wait, you'd rather they didn't. Why else would they come to you, right? It sure would be hard for you to get out from all of that student loan debt if you didn't have misinformed patients to scam and exploit.*

      *See, playing the elitist can easily work both ways.

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    2. Re:Except it didn't. by cheekyjohnson · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I can guarantee he's much, much smarter than you.

      Since when is someone else more intelligent than someone else merely because they can do something the other can't? Computers included.

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  3. Still don't think it was a DDoS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    I still don't think it was a DDoS. First, all the well known mirrors still worked, rather than being targeted as well. Second, the traffic for the pirate bay, at least for my computer, disappeared whenever it entered AT&T's part of the network (hop 5) instead of transversing it. And third, many other people report the same thing with different big pipes. All that suggests to me is bad routing information.

  4. Re:Works for the feds? by NickFortune · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nyre may simply have desired to support the Feds on a particular issue.

    Or maybe the feds trained someone from the MPAA to use twitter, and then thought "I know a cool way to turn to major anti-establishment groups against one another."

    Of course, this is assuming that no-one from the MPAA is smart enough to learn how to use twitter for themselves. Which is doing them a massive disservice, I'm sure...

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  5. nuts by bs0d3 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    also AlQaedaSec claims to be behind the attacks http://activepolitic.com:82/News/2012-05-16f/Crazy_People_Claiming_To_Be_Behind_Piratebay_DDOS.html

  6. FBI is on the case by 0111+1110 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm sure the FBI will leave no stone unturned and is doing a complete investigation to see if the person responsible is a US citizen or lives in a country with an extradition agreement. They will find this villain and put him behind bars, right? Because of course they don't want it to look like they only investigate cases where a large corporation with lots of bribe money is involved.

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  7. Excellent Work! by organgtool · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Great job, AnonNyre! For your next target, I recommend taking down Excite search engine and Geocities!

  8. Re:Works for the feds? by Dishevel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Feds != **AA
    Feds are a wholly owned subsidiary of the **AAs.

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  9. HELLO! by shiftless · · Score: 3, Funny

    ME SA JAR JAR BINKS!!