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Title: The Pirate Bay down, but not due to the trial Post by: Alex on March 03, 2009, 12:18:22 PM The Pirate Bay down, but not due to the trial
Various websites have reported in the last couple of hours that The Pirate Bay, currently in court due to the nature of their website, has been offline. Reuven of the website Sys-Con.tv rumored that this was due to a 'DDoS' attack, or Distributed Denial of Service. The site speculated it could also have been a hijacked botnet causing issues for the Swedish-owned website. The website TorrentFreak has dismissed all rumors, and has posted the following statement: At the moment there is no estimate for when the site will return. The problem can't be fixed remotely we were told. Read full story... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/neowin-main/~3/jIEO-KInj0g/the-pirate-bay-down-but-not-due-to-the-trial |