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DoS Attack Forces EVE Online Offline
Resorting to the out-of-band messaging that is Facebook, CCP Games has announced that "At 02:05 GMT June 2nd, CCP became aware of a significant and sustained distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) against the Tranquility cluster (which houses EVE Online and DUST 514) and web servers."
My bets would be most of the DDoS in the independent WoW server community is sponsored by Blizzard or Blizzard employees in an attempt to stop piracy (under corporate software developer's default assumption that anything they don't control is piracy).
Sure, most of the attacks come from Russia and southeast Asia, but the money that pays them comes from someone else. The accusation that other server runners are part of the DDoSing is just good propaganda to keep people looking in the wrong direction.
Face it, DDoS requires Smurfs, and most of the Smurfs in this world are dedicated to tasks that make money, like SPAM, tweaking stock prices, and taking down corporate websites, "at just the right time." I would love to do an in-depth comparison of companies and related entities which get hit hard with DDoS and are heavily algo-traded on the markets.