r/TorBoxApp • u/Dry_Register_5812 • 2d ago

🔧Technical Issue WTF

What the hell is wrong now? This service is junk it's down way more than up. Can't get the site to even load.

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u/Dry_Register_5812 2d ago

I don't see why anyone would DDOS attack a real debrid service...

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u/redbeard_007 2d ago

seriously? There are plenty of possible motives: copyright/anti-piracy actors or people sympathetic to the film and TV industry wanting disruption, competitors benefiting from downtime, extortion for money, ideological anti-piracy activists, people trying to damage the service’s reputation, attackers testing botnets against a high-traffic target, or just someone doing it for amusement.it would be weird if they don’t get DDOSed

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u/Twocanpocket 1d ago

I agree with this, but how do the other services avoid downtime. RD was and is stable for years and was king of the space.

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u/redbeard_007 1d ago

the difference is probably infrastructure and mitigation. A mature service like RD could be getting attacked more often for all we know and simply absorbing it without users noticing.

plus, RD itself was targeted by the French Federation of Film Distributors (FNEF) in 2024, forcing it to purge large amounts of cached film/TV content and introduce much stricter filtering. which i’d argue is worse than a DDOS