I have to admit. Sometimes when it’s too boring and I have nothing else to do, I do think of going to The Pirate Bay and downloading a movie or two. I mean, there’s nothing better than a show on a gloomy workday night. However, lately we’ve been seeing the signs that foreshadow the end of the era. Now, I don’t advocate illegal downloads, but it’s been getting harder to access it, and recently even The Pirate Bay (TPB) has taken a blow.
The website has experienced a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack for 24 hours in the UK. Even though the website does not know exactly who staged th
e attack they have “their own suspicions”. Due to the size and the intensity of the attack made the TPB think the hacking group Anonymous was definitely not behind it. Such conviction is based on the fact that Anonymous actually protects these kinds of sites. According to Andre Steward from Corero Network Security, it is more likely that the DDoS has been launched by record labels or a government. They might have been sick of not being able to catch TPB, and so someone with a huge cloud power decided to deal with the website this way. Continue reading
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