TorrentFreak Under Attack?
Written by Ernesto on July 17, 2007Our server took some terrible beats over the past few hours. Was it Harry Potter’s magic spell? Or perhaps our anti-piracy friends?
We can’t really give a definite answer right now but the good news is that we’re back in action (more or less).
Thank you for all the concerned and supportive e-mails we received. We could still have some downtime later today, but let’s hope we’ve had the worst of it.
Thanks for waiting.
update: A few minutes ago we received an anonymous e-mail from a “Harry Potter” fan who threatened to take down TorrentFreak if we didn’t remove our article about the leak of of “Deathly Hallows” (apparently afraid of spoilers, feel free to laugh).
He claims (with an army of Potter fanboys) to be responsible for the “attack” on our servers. Of course we don’t negotiate with terrorists! Besides that, I doubt that he’s really behind it.
update: On a sidenote, J.K. Rowling’s lawyers asked us to take down our Harry Potter leak article. Pretty strange because it is just a news post mainstream media like The New York Times, CNET, The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal also posted articles about the leak after we broke the news.
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And here I thought there was something going on with my internet connection. Suspicion is in the air, how discomforting. Glad to see the site’s up and running though with some visual modifications, apparently.
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man im glad TF back up,phew!
And guys didn’t TF just befriended mediadefender :) (kind off) lol.
Could be that you’re up on Drudge Report:
http://www.drudgereport.com/
“‘ALL IS NOT WELL’: ENTIRE NEW HARRY POTTER BOOK HITS FILE-SHARING SITES…”
Guys keep this place strong don’t get sucked up your balls by the retarded infamous “gang corrupt”. Yeah you are every day visited by …. you know who i am talking about right? The gang wanna make you disappear so they can continue to spread lies.
Well, you guys did pretty much break the Harry Potter story, no?
[quote comment="133911"]Could be that you’re up on Drudge Report:
http://www.drudgereport.com/
“‘ALL IS NOT WELL’: ENTIRE NEW HARRY POTTER BOOK HITS FILE-SHARING SITES…”[/quote]
It’s not related to the HP traffic ;)
[quote comment="133919"]Well, you guys did pretty much break the Harry Potter story, no?[/quote]
Yes we did :)
it’s just good that someone has balls to stand up against mpaa!
lol, i didn’t send an email this time
I am ashamed, was a long day you know… ;)
Hai Ernesto,
Sometimes i save sites for offline reading. but if i save torrentfreak post’s . and open it , i can’t see any text. may be both text and background color is same that’s why. so i use firefox ScrapBook
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/427
to highlight text then save “TF” page :D
LOL at the threat of taking down TorrentFreak.
Bitch boy Potter fan is under control… He wasnt the threat… it was a couple of groups pissed off about the release of the book for free online. But like I said… Its all good now… TF is fine and will continue…
This is _priceless_
I like the books but spoilers, meh. Just don’t read you stupid nerds.
welcome back TF. I have not logged the data. but there had been a Spike in torrent freak web site traffic which was worth suspecting.
It has been a cheap trick of mass flooding of the http: 80 port.
Great to have TF back.
If the culprit is HP7 posting…
Feel like posting all the 700+images of the book,the PDF,doc format of the book.
i do not know whether it is worth posting.
feedback please.
All my post are data driven.
havent read the new book, someone please post whats going on in the new book
hay cant you just send it priveately
via e mail
There are many people out there with bot nets just waiting to do something with them… I know since you can either sell them to someone who will do who knows what with it or use it for other less evil means such as ddos. I know it sounds bad but trust me this is the lesser of two evils.
WB TorrentFreak
I hope copyright-fans will die !!!
Ah, I knew this would happened. Never underestimate the power of pissed-off pre-teens! But seriously, I was mad myself having the lack of will to not click that link. But, no hard feelings. It isn’t your fault, you just report the big torrent news, and this was a whopper.
It feels like I am the only one of my friends whos not a harry potter nerd
I bet it was J.K.Rowling herself that sent you that e-mail .. don’t you pirates realise how hard it is for her to put food on her children because you watch the movie free online before you go to see it in the cinemas….
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Good Lord, a bunch of HP fans threatening to talk TF down? I agree, it is terrorism in the cyber world. Leaks happen all the time, especialy on upcoming that has a lot of hype on it. There is nothing that fanboys/girls can do about it, the leaks will spread throughout mainstream media.
Hell, I have seen the leaks on my local news channel.
Things spread fast, even unreleased material, and the only thing to stop it is to shut the Internet down itself. (Which is next to impossible unless someone fires EMP devices, targeting the main servers around the world)
there’s a file at this blog http://andrebenjamim.blogspot.com/2007/07/harry-potter-deathly-hallows-download.html that many fans are saying that is very possible to be real. it’a a 700 pages pdf…
If it makes you feel better, they also made an MSN blog entry about it be taken down.
TF, you kill!
Blessings & stay strong!
PS: A+++ on site design!
i hope you blocked the offending ip’s
Ehehehe, I could have never imagined that HP fanboys were doing this :)
Seriously, this is the most hilarious news ever !
TF, you make my day!
BIG SPOILER..Don’t read if u don’t want to know…
Harry is last horcrux, Voldy kills him but because of the deathly hallows and DD he will live (best part of the story in my mind)..he kills Voldy..
Deathly hallows (which are items!) more important that horcrux (in my mind again)
Last big battle at hogwarts…Tonks, Lupin, Fred, Colin Creevy an 50 others die…Neville very important in battle..Snape dies but reveals he was a good guy all along..DD death in last book was planned by DD (he was dying anyway cuz of blackened hand curse)..Molly Weasly kicks butt in battle when Ginny attacked…
Then it gets predictable (too predictable for me)
Harry marries Ginny have 3 kids 1 named Albus Severus..poor kid..
Ron and Hermie have 2 kids.
Draco marries (wife not mentioned and has 1 kid “scorpius”)
Neville is herbology prof…
All kids go to hogwarts and live happily ever after..
This is a must read book…
If they don’t want spoilers, they can avoid the leaks and buy an ‘umbrella’.
pwnd! :)
HP7 has been leaked!
That’s just retarded…
I mean… it’s one thing to be upset about the news…
it’s another thing to shoot the messenger.
If the Harry fans did do it… I hope they’re ashamed of themselves.
I believe there’s such a thing as bad Karma… and knowingly attacking a site because of the news that’s on it totally rates as wrong in my books.
And riddle me this… how often do you download book torrents any way?
I’ve only done it with manuals. If it’s a book I’ll usually buy it or borrow from the library.
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