Torrent Website ExtraTorrent Under DDoS Attacks; Pirate Bay Also Down (torrentfreak.com)

Posted by msmash on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @07:20AM from the outage-report dept.

It's getting harder for people who don't like paying for movies, music, and applications. Popular torrent website ExtraTorrent is suffering an outage Tuesday, the site confirmed. The site says it is on the receiving end of DDoS attacks, observing 40 to 50 million requests coming from the United States every hour. The site told TorrentFreak that it has been facing "tons of cyberattacks" over the past three days. The Pirate Bay is also down for many users. Users who try to access the site get a CloudFlare downtime warning, or a new Captcha error.

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Government by volodymyrbiryuk · 2016-12-27 07:25 · Score: 5, Funny

I sure hope our criminals catch and punish the government who took the law in their own hands and started these DDOS attacks.

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sudo rm -r -f --no-preserve-root /
Re:Criminals by JaredOfEuropa · 2016-12-27 07:56 · Score: 4, Funny

That's what he said: criminals.

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If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
Re:RIAA, MPAA by ThePangolino · 2016-12-27 08:43 · Score: 4, Funny

Lesser known.

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My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.