Pirate Bay hit by DDoS attack

[p1ngpong]

Having trouble accessing TPB even through a proxy over the past 24 hours? It seems the now notorious file sharing site has fallen victim to a Distributed Denial of Service attack by an unknown group leaving it largely inaccessible for most people. Confirming the attack on their facebook page they stated in their typicaly humorous fashion "We were loling just like you, then we took a ddos to the knee. But now we're getting back up! Stronger than ever!"

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[prowler]

bbc are pirates confirmed.

 

[thaddius]

I was wondering what was up.

 

[pokefloote]

bbc are pirates confirmed.

or they enjoy downloading the many quality films available for free by indie filmmakers...
lol no

 

[Wizerzak]

What's the bets that Anonymous supposedly attack the site in a few days and report that these DDoS attacks today were by the US government?

 

[Qtis]

The Pirate Bay is quite amazing in a few ways: it's still up regardless of lawsuits, it has been hit quite a few times and the servers are scattered. Not a bad way to go about, especially when people use it quite frequently (and IP blocks are apparently quite easy to circumvent). Still have to say that I haven't really needed TPB even though my ISP is blocking it at least for now.. Harr harr harr..?

 

[Luigi2012SM64DS]

no wonder

 

[mameks]

lol that's amusing in a special sort of way

 

[triassic911]

TPB sure knows how to take serious situations and make jokes. Bravo.

Also, when did it become ok to freely name torrent sites with copyrighted content?

 

[Fear Zoa]

Quickly! Blame riaa, mpaa, sopa, pipa, acta, cispa, anonymous, AlanJohn, and the United states as a whole!

 

[Fluto]

Ahhh, I thought something was wrong.

 

[WiiUBricker]

There are much worse sites to target for DDoS than the bay.

btw, I thought that mentions of file sharing sites are not allowed here.

 

[Tsuteto]

That's hilarious. Here's to more good humor in the coming days, I hope, in these attacks that TPB just shrugs off.

 

[Fear Zoa]

There are much worse sites to target for DDoS than the bay.

btw, I thought that mentions of file sharing sites are not allowed here.

I don't really think there's much point in censoring it, whether you say TPB or the penguin bar everyone know what the website is anyway.

 

[Depravo]

Mentioning the site in genuine news articles is fine. Suggesting it as a place to get 'warez' is not.

 

[p1ngpong]

We decided a while back that if it's for legitimate news purposes sites like TPB can be named.

However that doesn't mean news threads like "omg new awesome warez site has opened" type threads are acceptable and so on.

 

[Janthran]

PENGUIN
BAR
RAAAGE

 

[Gahars]

DDOS attacks are the scurvy of the internet.

 

[Anon10W1z]

TPB SUCKS!!! BOOYAH PIRATES!!! lol pretend i said that in lowercase.

 

[MelodieOctavia]

I don't think anyone actually competently familiar with file sharing ever uses TPB for most things anymore.