I just noticed that tons of commenters on our latest Pirate Bay trial update were saying that the site was down, and sure enough, others are reporting that the Bay is indeed under attack. Reuven at Sys-Con.tv is saying it's an orchestrated DDoS assault, and that the culprit may have hijacked a botnet to make it happen. I guess it's pretty serious. [Sys-Con.tv and Giz comments]


Update on that Reuven guy's site: "The problem can't be fixed remotely we were told. However, people are on their way to the 'secret' location where the Pirate Bay hardware is located to find out what the problem is." Reuven also says "The downtime is not related to the trial," which either means that TPB knows who attacked them, or it's not actually an attack at all. Oh the mystery!!!