Pirate Bay prosecution websites attacked
By Asavin Wattanajantra in Editorial
Posted in file sharing, Pirate Bay on
An internet backlash has started against the the lawyers who helped prosecute and send the Pirate Bay founders to jail.
According to reports, the latest in a string of online reprisals saw a website belonging to the MAQS law firm taken down, which was acted on behalf of the US movie studios during the trial.
The website of movie industry body IFPI also had to be taken down after being found victim of a Denial of Service attack. According to the website TorrentFreak, this was part of something called ‘Operation Baylout’ organised by a band of Pirate Bay supporters.
Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde said he understood the frustrations of the people, but didn’t think it would solve the problem. He says: “I hope they do something more permanent instead, like giving the idiots that give power to the media industry lose their own power.”
The Pirate Bay itself went offline last night, and in the IT PRO office we made educated guesses and investigated what might happened - did ISPs finally decide to block the site, was it another reaction in the vein of Facebook blocking the Pirate Bay, did the police decide to raid the servers again…?
No, nothing like that. In fact all that happened was that Pirate Bay had suffered a broken fibre connection, and to be honest I thought this was likely - people have tried to take the Pirate Bay down before and they never had any luck doing so.
What comes out from all this is that the story will keep running - there’s no end in sight to the business of the trial, while as we’ve seen, the Pirate Bay looks as healthy as it always has been.
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