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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Re:iTunes ditched DRM in January 2009 by Anonymous Coward · 2016-12-27 10:28 · Score: 2, Informative

So your excuse is nearly a decade out of date.
No, the excuse is still valid. iTunes still deletes stuff off your HD on corporations whims. https://apple.slashdot.org/story/16/05/05/159219/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously