PirateBay facing DDoS attacks

The most popular file sharing website: The PirateBay was down for some time yesterday due to DDoS attacks (distributed denial of service). The staff of PirateBay said that the website was shut down by them to improve the site against such attacks. Even when the attacks were going on many people were able to access the website from its proxies. DDoS attacks are the one which hit the Demonoid servers earlier this month. But PirateBay staff dealt with them more efficiently & the website was again up & running. There is no proof that the government officials are behind these attacks, but they are one of the few who will benefit from these attacks.

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Demonoid, Wikileaks, KrebsOnSecurity hit by DDoS

Recently Demonoid, Wikileaks & KrebsOnSecurity websites were hit by DDoS attacks. Demonoid never got back & was permanently shut down by authorities. While Wikileaks & KrebsOnSecurity came back online after the DDoS attack was over. This increase in DDoS attacks could be just an increasing random trend or specifically targeted act done by a group of individuals. No one has taken any responsibilities for these DDoS attacks. Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack is an attack on a web server in which a large number of junk requests from many computers are sent simultaneously to the server thus making it unavailable for real users.

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How to download torrents safely without getting caught!

After Demonoid shutdown people want to stay anonymous when downloading torrents. Some BitTorrent users think that by using Encryption, public VPN, public proxies & some tools like Peerblock they can remain anonymous. But the truth is none of these make you anonymous. You can find this for yourself note down your real IP from here& check your IP again after applying any of above methods. These methods do not make you anonymous; using these you can get caught.

Then how to download torrents without getting caught?

Simple answer, do the following things:

• If you use a proxy then check anonymity of your proxy here, if your proxy is working then OK otherwise try another one (free/paid like BTGuard).
• If you use a VPN services then check its anonymity here, if it is working then OK otherwise use another VPN service (Free/Paid like HotSpot Shield).
• Uses a Seedbox to get your torrent downloads & then download from seedbox using FTP.
• Use TOR browser for browsing.

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Anonymous started #OpDemonoid as a retaliation to Demonoid seizure

After many file sharing web sites and torrent tracker Demonoid was also taken off the internet by European officers. A worldwide chatter regarding the take down and a lot of registered member's data and the way that will be used against them is going on.

Regardless of the laws broken and what has been done wrong, Anonymous has setup a retaliation operation dedicated to the Demonoid cause: #OpDemonoid

DDoS attacks geared toward European officials’ websites have already begun and Anonymous’ #OpDemonoid clearly states its demands:

“#OpDemonoid has the subsequent objectives:

1. Restore Demonoid services by any means that are necessary and, if doable, facilitate a series of mirror sites operated by free Anons all over. In essence, open source Demonoid.

2. Retaliate against those liable for the interruption.

Our work would will need time and patience however once we win, Demonoid will live again”

We all know Anonymous is an idea, not an individual person or a group of people we can specifically aim a finger at.

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Am I going to be sued for being a Demonoid User?

First of all, the not so good news: If the govt. wants to go against you (a Demonoid user) they have everything they need to crush you. From a source at Demonoid’s Ukrainian data center, “Investigators have hunted most of the data from the servers of Demonoid and sealed the servers” as Demonoid served as both a hosting torrent files and also helped coordinating file transfers between peers.

The good news is, there is a high probability that it would not occur "As a crumble some matter, the government has not been sharply prosecuting individual file-sharers except the one who have been associated with impossible-to-ignore infringement of high-profile assets, like the pre-release of a Hollywood blockbuster movie" Eric syndicalist, academic of Law at city University, said. That is why all the recent takedowns, from OiNK.cd to Mega Upload, have fallen on the site's owners rather than its immeasurable users.

When individual users are identified, it's mostly on behalf of individual works, just like the Expendables or The Hurt Locker. A suit like that may use Demonoid's information as fodder; however it would not offer them a lot of value. It might be easier to follow each torrent of the no matter which tracker it's using.

All of this means you are in all probability safe, at least of on the Demonoid side.
Previously Demonoid went down due to DDos attacks & after that Government officials raided Demonoid servers & took all data of Demonoid users.

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Demonoid busted, Users information in hands of Investigators

Last week thousands of Demonoid users feared that their beloved web site Demonoid disappeared from the web, many people thought that the location had been busted, however they were relieved to listen to that it was only a huge DDoS attack. But today the roller-coaster ride plummeted to new depths, with positive confirmation that the DDoS was simply the start – the location has been busted by the authorities.

ColoCall is that the largest datacenter in Ukraine and an area that has been Demonoid’s range in recent years, however within the middle of last week, within the wake of the DDoS attack, government investigators came across ColoCall to shut Demonoid down.

“Investigators have copied all the information & then sealed off the Demonoid servers” an anonymous ColoCall supply confirmed.

Despite general opinion that Demonoid did not go against Ukranian law, particularly since it blocked all Ukranian IP addresses to avoid discomfiting the locals, the tracker still attracted the eye of the authorities there. That resulted in involvement of US officials.

Ukraine had assured the US that it'd improve its efforts towards imposing copyright. But whereas Demonoid’s servers are in custody, the site’s admin doesn't seem to be. The ColoCall source wouldn't say who is behind the tracker, only that its management is in Mexico.

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