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[matthews_world]

Anyone having problems loading Pirate Bay?

[dehanmingook]

same here

i was just thinking to myself that they banned piratebay from korea but i tried proxy and it didnt work still

got scared for a minute but i think its just down?

[ttompatz]

working fine today:
http://www.thepiratebay.org now redirects to:
http://thepiratebay.se/

Probably just needed time for the new DNS to propagate.

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[Squire]

There was a news article on Google about it being DDoS'd.

[Los Angeloser]

The Pirate Bay hit by DDoS attack
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18095370

An interesting read, to which I have one question...What are the "trusted" proxies? I'll highlight some of the article...

"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.

TPB allows users to illegally obtain copyrighted songs, films and other content for free.

Copyright holders argue this causes a significant loss in revenue.

However, others say that it is very difficult to assess the impact of downloading on sales."