[Infowarrior] - Pirate Bay Hit With DDoS Attack After "Selling Out"

[Richard Forno]

Pirate Bay Hit With DDoS Attack After "Selling Out"
8:01 AM - July 1, 2009 by Jane McEntegart

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Pirate-Bay-DDoS-Sell-Out, 
8173.html#xtor=RSS-181

Yesterday news hit that the four co-founders of The Pirate Bay were  
selling the site to Global Gaming Factory X AB for nearly $7.8 million  
and users didn’t exactly bow down to their new leaders.
The vast majority of users think that the sales represents a sell out  
on behalf of The Pirate Bay co-founders who have been bogged down with  
legal battles for months. Sentenced to a year each in prison and  
ordered to pay upwards of $3 million in fines, many regular users of  
The Pirate Bay think that this is a “take the money and run” solution  
for Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde and Carl  
Lundström.

Further fueling speculation that the deal was a death knell for TPB,  
the site was down for long periods of time yesterday. Some figured it  
was because the site was getting so many hits in light of the news and  
others assumed it was TPB shutting down. In fact, it was a DDoS attack  
from disappointed users.

Spokesperson for the group Peter Sunde confirmed via his Twitter that  
yesterday that the reason for the down time was a DDoS. In response to  
one user who asked if a DDoS attack was why he couldn’t access the  
site, Sunde replied, “Yup, DDoS. Understand the people doing it as  
well. I hope people will calm down and understand what it means  
logically instead...”

Unfortunately, Sunde wasn’t as calm and understanding throughout the  
day. Tweets from his Twitter account rang from, “We've been asking  
people to open more trackers, nothing happens.We've been fighting for  
five years. Where's the thanks?” to “#spectrial is still a spectacle  
and we need all the support we can get. I f**king cried earlier that  
people don't understand us.”