The Pirate Bay Hit with a DDOS Attack

[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

File-sharing website The Pirate Bay (TPB) has been hit by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.

The site has been largely inaccessible for the last 24 hours, and the service is intermittent in the UK.

The Pirate Bay has confirmed the attack on its Facebook page, saying that it did not know who was behind it, although it "had its suspicions".

A provider of DDoS defence systems said that it was unlikely that the attack came from hacking group Anonymous.

"There will be further attacks, but what's significant about this whole story is that people think that it is the Anonymous attacking a site which is typically a type of site that they defend," said Andre Stewart of Corero Network Security.

"It could be the record labels, or a government somewhere that has had enough of not being able to catch The Pirate Bay, it could be just one person who had rented some cloud power from Amazon and is sitting in a cafe, and is able to launch an attack."

Although some users may have attempted to access the site using proxies, TPB itself warned them against doing so.

"Use proxies at own risk. Don't login unless you trust the proxy supplier. Don't freak out. You'll get your TPB fix tomorrow," said the site.

Being an illegal file-sharing site, TPB allows users to obtain songs, films and other content free, thus angering copyright holders who end up losing money.

Virgin Media users trying to access The Pirate Bay are shown a message explaining why it is blocked "If they're losing money and seeing that the government is not being able to stop it, there's a real monetary value reason for them to try and bring it down," said Mr Stewart.

"And if they can do it in the name of Anonymous then it's great for them.

"Equally the governments that protect these industries are frustrated as well because they haven't been able to see it close down, unlike a number of other torrent sites."

Virgin Media began preventing access to the file-sharing site following a High Court order last week.

Some time later the Virgin Media website suffered a hack attack that many thought was organised to protest against efforts to block access to TPB.

Twitter feeds associated with the Anonymous collective wrote: "Virgin Media - Tango Down #OpTPB".

But TPB criticised Anonymous for the attack, writing on its Facebook page that it did not "encourage these actions".

"We believe in the open and free internets, where anyone can express their views," wrote TPB.

"Even if we strongly disagree with them and even if they hate us. So don't fight them using their ugly methods. DDoS and blocks are both forms of censorship."

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[$5 submissions]

[lucas131]

mooom ... mooom? please, someone is attacking my website. mooom, what do i have to do?

[Zeiss]

Originally Posted by lucas131

mooom ... mooom? please, someone is attacking my website. mooom, what do i have to do?

maybe that's the best you can do and they will just go away

[Barefootsies]

Two wrongs do not make it right.

[anexsia]

lolol warns against using proxies and then provides a huge list of proxies to use available on their facebook page

[VenusBlogger]

Obviously this DDOS comes from USA.

There is no other country in the World that wants the pirate bay down.

USA BIG MAFIA CORPORATIONS and HOLLYWOOD ILLEGAL EMPIRES are really pissed because PERIQUITO does not answer to any DMCA or letter at all, ever. They also have no data retention, so anyone can host whatever they want there and they are not going to have a single problem and not questions asked.

[kane]

Originally Posted by VenusBlogger

Obviously this DDOS comes from USA.

There is no other country in the World that wants the pirate bay down.

USA BIG MAFIA CORPORATIONS and HOLLYWOOD ILLEGAL EMPIRES are really pissed because PERIQUITO does not answer to any DMCA or letter at all, ever. They also have no data retention, so anyone can host whatever they want there and they are not going to have a single problem and not questions asked.

No other country except for the UK which just ordered their ISP's to block them or Sweden which has been trying to put the owners of the site in jail for a while now. Or any one of the other dozen or so countries that either block them or are working to block them.

[looky_lou]

Originally Posted by kane

No other country except for the UK which just ordered their ISP's to block them or Sweden which has been trying to put the owners of the site in jail for a while now. Or any one of the other dozen or so countries that either block them or are working to block them.

It's pretty obvious that he lives under a rock somewhere.

[Paul Markham]

Some good news today,

[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

Originally Posted by Barefootsies

Two wrongs do not make it right.

But three rights make a left...



I agree. It will be interesting to see who is behind the attack (or if it can be determined who initiated the attack).

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[BIGTYMER]

Originally Posted by VenusBlogger

Obviously this DDOS comes from USA.

There is no other country in the World that wants the pirate bay down.

USA BIG MAFIA CORPORATIONS and HOLLYWOOD ILLEGAL EMPIRES are really pissed because PERIQUITO does not answer to any DMCA or letter at all, ever. They also have no data retention, so anyone can host whatever they want there and they are not going to have a single problem and not questions asked.

[topnotch, standup guy]

Originally Posted by Barefootsies

Two wrongs do not make it right.

Since when has it been considered wrong to step on a cockroach?





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[SmutHammer]

Why doesn't the usa just take their domains?

[MrBottomTooth]

Originally Posted by Ed Hammer

Why doesn't the usa just take their domains?

I think that is why they switched to the .se domain. They probably could have taken the .org.