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

Posted by msmash on 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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  1. Criminals by frovingslosh · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

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  2. Re:RIP Carrie Fisher by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    You should go kill yourself. Like, right now.

  3. Re:PLEASE think of the pirates by bsolar · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You don't need reasons to feel entitled to something. On top of that doing something against the rules if you can get away with it is basically standard business practice for most big organisations, why are common citizens expected to behave differently?

  4. Re:Uh oh, honesty. 53 million songs by 14M artists by SciFurz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Uh oh, someone told the truth. Around here we're supposed to pretend that it's something else, other than being cheap.

    I can't speak for eveyone, but I have adopted the see-first-pay-after-if-worth-it attitude.
    I've paid enough for disappointing music and movies that I now want to see and hear it first before paying a dime. Them trying to hustle me with a spectacular preview and delivering nothing more is not going to work anymore.

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  5. Re:Uh oh, honesty. 53 million songs by 14M artists by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    > It's getting harder for people who don't like paying for movies, music, and applications

    Uh oh, someone told the truth. Around here we're supposed to pretend that it's something else, other than being cheap.

    It's funny that it's a product when it's convenient and a licence when it's not. Not to mention that if the package is opened then you can't return it if it's defective. And a final note, why are not all titles available. Isn't that the point of copyright so they will be published.

    Yeah I know who is cheap and it's not the pirates.