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Pirate Bay and ExtraTorrent down DDoS Attack

The Pirate Bay and ExtraTorrent, two of the biggest remaining torrent sites on the internet, appear to be unavailable for users right now. According to  TorrentFreak , a massive DDoS attack is responsible for ExtraTorrent’s problems, while The Pirate Bay is still trying to work out what’s going on. ExtraTorrent reportedly received a threat several days ago, demanding that the site take down new protections it had built in for users, but which make life difficult for proxy providers. “Some hours ago (12~?) Your main website was down for like 6-7? Minutes… It will happen again, for hours, days…IF you don’t remove the encoded stuff from your website and let proxy operators, like myself, do their job,” an email to ExtraTorrent read.   Following that email, ExtraTorrent has reportedly been under a major DDoS attack for days, even overwhelming protections set up by CloudFlare, a company that provides DDoS protection. Currently, ExtraTorrent has limited availability from some geographic locations, but the site is still struggling to deal with the attack. The Pirate Bay is also offline, but the cause of the problem is unknown. The site told  TorrentFreak  that it is “aware of the problems and said that their technical crew will look into them as soon as they’ve woken up and had a beer.” Source: http://bgr.com/2016/12/27/extratorrent-down-pirate-bay-proxy-ddos-attack/

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Pirate Bay and ExtraTorrent down DDoS Attack