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    A flood of data has hammered several of the tracking servers for BitTorrent downloads, according to LokiTorrent, a Torrent network hub.

    The attacks apparently targeted the central BitTorrent directories used by people to find movies, music and other content on the file-swapping network, according to information posted Wednesday on LokiTorrent, a BitTorrent tracking Web site.

    "We had a massive DDoS attack lasting almost 10 hours today," said the posting on the site. "It seems we were not alone in this attack, as many other torrent sites also fell victim to them. Us being up again does not mean these attacks may not happen again, but at least it means we had taken steps to prevent further attacks."

    BitTorrent technology lets people download files from several member computers in a peer-to-peer network. Once a fragment of a file is cached on a PC, that machine then makes it available to other users, to speed downloads. Though distribution is shared, the technology still relies on central tracking servers to direct a downloader's software to different pieces of a file, which could be hosted on several users' PCs.

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    Default Re: BitTorrent servers under attack

    musta been the riaa

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    Default Re: BitTorrent servers under attack

    yo mi jus find this ting, and it well bad. fire fi dem man deh who dos it! why they dont use that for more productive means like going against microsoft!

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    Default Re: BitTorrent servers under attack

    Oh well......two big torrent sites get shut down
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    Default Re: BitTorrent servers under attack

    well torrentbits and suprnova out for the count.
    christmas officially sucks.

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    Guess it's back to emule
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    Default Re: BitTorrent servers under attack

    I am glad that I dont soley depend on bittorent for my anime,etc!
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    Default Re: BitTorrent servers under attack

    darn, why? why? this is a very sad day. dont lose hope there are lots more torrent sites

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    Default Re: BitTorrent servers under attack

    Quote Originally Posted by megiddo
    why they dont use that for more productive means like going against microsoft!
    So what makes you think they would attack their own?
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    Default Re: BitTorrent servers under attack

    Quote Originally Posted by Chris
    So what makes you think they would attack their own?
    lol! thats right! no black hat would work against the torrent trackers.

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