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class="col-8_md-12 hero__content"> <h1 class="hero__title">Pirate Bay Under DDoS Attack From Unknown Enemy</h1> <footer class="hero__meta"> <div class="hero__published"><time>May 16, 2012</time> by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220416162030/https://torrentfreak.com/author/andy/">Andy Maxwell</a> </div> </footer> </div> </div> </section> <div class="container container--main grid"> <section class="col-8_md-12 page__content"> <article class="article"> <header class="article__header"> <p class="bread_cr"> <span property="itemListElement" typeof="ListItem"><a property="item" typeof="WebPage" title="Go to TorrentFreak." href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220416162030/https://torrentfreak.com/" class="home"><span property="name">Home</span></a><meta property="position" content="1"></span> > <span property="itemListElement" typeof="ListItem"><a property="item" typeof="WebPage" title="Go to the All category archives." 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However, for the last 24 hours the site has been largely inaccessible world wide due to a completely different type of censorship. After the site openly criticized Anonymous last week for DDoS'ing UK ISP Virgin Media, The Pirate Bay itself is now under attack. </p> </header> <div class="article__body"> <p><img alt="" width="175" height="188" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20220416162030/https://www.torrentfreak.com//images/tpb.jpg" class="alignright lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="/><noscript><img alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20220416162030im_/https://www.torrentfreak.com//images/tpb.jpg" class="alignright" width="175" height="188"/></noscript>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.</p> <p>At the time of writing The Pirate Bay has been inaccessible to most of the world for nearly 24 hours and our ‘inbox’ is suffering. But it appears to be the timing of the downtime that has caused more people than usual to panic.</p> <p>The root lies in the recent court-ordered censorship of The Pirate Bay in the UK. The country’s leading ISPs are required to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220416162030/https://torrentfreak.com/uk-isps-must-censor-the-pirates-bay-high-court-rules-120430/">block the site</a> so millions of people were already expecting to have trouble accessing the domain. What they didn’t anticipate was the failure of the many published workarounds to resupply access to the site.</p> <p>For those to work the site itself has to be working properly and currently it is not. While TPB is used to being censored by courts and ISPs, it is a little less used to being blacked-out by other means. TorrentFreak is informed by a Pirate Bay insider that the site is currently being subjected to a DDoS attack rendering it unavailable in many parts of the world.</p> <p>Now, while we’re informed that the problem might be mitigated during the next few hours, the timing of this attack against the site is either ironic, ‘interesting’ or at the very least coincidental, depending on your viewpoint.</p> <p>Just last week, The Pirate Bay <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220416162030/https://torrentfreak.com/tpb-hey-anonymous-stop-ddosing-virgin-120510/">openly criticized</a> elements of the ‘Anonymous’ collective for carrying out a DDoS attack on Virgin Media, the first UK ISP to block access to The Pirate Bay.</p> <p>“We do NOT encourage these actions. We believe in the open and free internets, where anyone can express their views. Even if we strongly disagree with them and even if they hate us,” said TPB in response to the DDoS attack against Virgin.</p> <p>“So don’t fight them using their ugly methods. DDOS and blocks are both forms of censorship.”</p> <p>Right now, whoever is attacking The Pirate Bay has achieved what no copyright or governmental authority anywhere in the world has – an almost complete disruption of the site’s operations on a global basis with no court order required.</p> <p>But despite the DDoS there are still ways for people to access the site. 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