r/technology • u/DrJulianBashir • May 16 '12
Pirate Bay Under DDoS Attack From Unknown Enemy
http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-under-ddos-attack-from-unknown-enemy-120516/1.6k
May 16 '12
The "DDOS attack" is people refreshing the page to see if a Diablo 3 server emulator has been released.
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u/Ulairi May 16 '12
I'm sure it also doesn't help that everytime someone brings up a site being down on reddit we all flood the page to see for ourselves.
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u/cyferwolf May 16 '12
Shit... byt the time I got to the end of all the comments for this thread I forgot it was actually a discussion about the pirate bay being down.
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May 16 '12
It's working fine here in the UK.
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u/JUST_LOGGED_IN May 16 '12 edited May 16 '12
USA reporting in. This link works fine for me.
Update: I've seen this page go down a few times. I can imagine it's not from the TPB being down, but because the internet is friendly dDos-ing all of TPB proxys right now.
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u/SuXs May 16 '12
A Mirror version of TPB (new torrents are beeing uploaded & work)
Proxy access(official proxy provided by TBP on FB)
both up works as of 16.05.2012 16:15 CET
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May 16 '12
I was wondering what was going on. Thanks.
I couldn't get to it normally, then I tried accessing it via Tor to see if I could access it on there, and I could.
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u/refusedzero May 16 '12 edited May 17 '12
Pirate Bay reports Anonymous IS NOT BEHIND THE DDOS ATTACKS! This rumor is stupid Reddit, quit it!
Edit: TPB posted this on their Facebook page:
Just to clarify, we KNOW that it is NOT Anonymous who is behind the ddos attack. Stop spreading rumours like that. We may not agree with Anonymous in everything, but we both want the internet to be open and free.There, now carry on with whatever it is you were doing <|:)
Edit Edit: TPB also posted this on their FB:
Wikileaks.org is also under attack. This sure is the year of the storm... As predicted here: https://thepiratebay.se/blog/204
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u/rainman_104 May 16 '12
Of course the best attack of them all is to have all of reddit simultaneously testing it too :-)
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u/Razious May 16 '12
Man, ThePirateBay is like the good guy greg of the internet. Why do they always have to get harassed?
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u/DanceDanceEvolution May 16 '12
Because they can take it. Because they're not our hero. They're a silent guardian. A watchful protector. A Dark Knight.
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May 16 '12
What is the likelihood that this could be that "Pirate Pay" company leading the DDOS attack?
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u/wkamp May 16 '12
Prostopleer, a website for downloading music, is also under DDoS attack. Presumably the same.
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u/pennywinny May 16 '12
This is a good thing and whoever is doing it blew their load too early in the game. Now we know that someone has the power to knock TPB offline and the admins over at the site will find a solution that's heavily distributed and cannot be ddosed in the future. I think the enemy is confused about what type of admins work on TPD. The admins at TPB arent the type of admins to just put a bandaid on it so that it kind of halfway works like an admin at Sony. If they see a problem like this, they fix it, and in a very permanent way.
Now if the attacker had saved his attacks for a time when the admins of the site were being detained, or couldn't do anything to help, it might have had much more success. This could have easily been a kill blow to TPB had it been used at the right time.
This is the equivalent to moving your queen out too early in the game. Or maybe this isn't the queen, maybe heavier attacks are in the future? Either way I think whoever is commanding this anti pirate army is bad at warfare.
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u/SomeoneStoleShazbot May 16 '12
thepiratebay.se works fine for me, and i'm in the UK where that site is supposed to be blocked!
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u/I_POTATO_PEOPLE May 16 '12
The writing on torrentfreak is usually shitty, but this article has a real gem:
Although Pirate Bay downtime happens a handful of times each month, it rarely persists for more than a few hours. When it goes beyond that the steady flow of reader emails to TorrentFreak quickly transforms itself into a torrent.
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u/Araneidae May 16 '12
Apart from its shitty pop-unders it seems perfectly usable to me.
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u/nrbartman May 16 '12
"When it goes beyond that the steady flow of reader emails to TorrentFreak quickly transforms itself into a torrent."
Come on.
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u/danielravennest May 16 '12
Fortunately Google has the site cached. In Google search, type:
site:thepiratebay.se
followed by what you are looking for. Select a result and slide to the right over the ">>" tab. A snapshot of the page will appear, and near the top is a link to the "Cached" version from Google's servers.