Mininova Under Massive DDoS Attack

Terry Olaes

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If you’ve been wondering why Mininova has been so sporadically available lately, TorrentFreak has the answer: a massive DDoS attack that has been occurring over the past few days. Co-founder Niek told TF that they’re working on a solution and hope to have things back to normal soon.

Mininova is used to serving millions of visitors a day, but even they are not equipped to handle an attack like this. Today’s attack originates from Germany and Argentina and is 2 Gbit strong. The DDoS attack is maxing out the entire uplink and is hard to filter since it uses UDP connections.
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How many of those companies employed by RIAA/MPAA are still around to do fake releases and such? I think this might be it.

Or somehow, someone with a botnet got pissed at Mininova. Nothing but my first idea makes sense unless the Mininova owner(s) make money off ads and were threatened with attacks if they didn't pay up.
 
I doubt the media conglomerates would bother doing something like that, simply because it opens them up to way too much liability.

More likely some bot net manager or someone else got pissed at them for some reason, or is/was trying to extort some money from them.
 
kioras said:
I doubt the media conglomerates would bother doing something like that, simply because it opens them up to way too much liability.
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I dont credit them with much common sense and they are as shady as f!
Just the sort of thing I would expect them to do.
 
I was kidding. Though with the shady way in which the RIAA and MPAA conduct their racket err business, it would not surprise me all that much.

Like above poster typed, somebody with access to a bot net trying to extort money or just plain ole' pissed off at mininova is a more likely scenario.
 
GORANKAR said:
I was kidding. Though with the shady way in which the RIAA and MPAA conduct their racket err business, it would not surprise me all that much.

Like above posters typed, somebody with access to a bot net trying to extort money or just plain ole' pissed off at mininova is a more likely scenario.
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LOL I was screaming at Mininova the other night too because it was loading slower than pirate bay....now I know why. Why would someone be pissed at a torrent site? I love mini nova more than santa clause. hell even more than most of my relatives.
 
Some people are pointing at media defender... I have no idea at this point its all speculation.
 
Why would anyone be on the enemies side. I bet you the riaa and mpaa are at the root of this.
 
rickyyo said:
Some people are pointing at media defender... I have no idea at this point its all speculation.
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Thats what I came here to say, while I doubt the **AA would conduct the ddos attacks themselves, the worthless, empty suits at media defender and other similar companies would ddos mininova. Remember the emails from media defender that got out? No wonder theyre pissed.
 
kioras said:
I doubt the media conglomerates would bother doing something like that, simply because it opens them up to way too much liability.

More likely some bot net manager or someone else got pissed at them for some reason, or is/was trying to extort some money from them.
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Read about Media Defender. Or Sony's rootkits. I would put nothing past the media mafiaa. They own enough politicians they will never be prosecuted for their many many crimes and abuses of the legal system.
 
I did notice the.... um.... torrent of new fake torrents lately, new torrents having ridiculous amounts of seeds (16000+) within the first few hours.

I didn't realize they were being assaulted.
 
vettepk said:
LOL I was screaming at Mininova the other night too because it was loading slower than pirate bay....now I know why. Why would someone be pissed at a torrent site? I love mini nova more than santa clause. hell even more than most of my relatives.
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Mininova sucks.
 
gtg465x said:
Compared to what? Please enlighten us. I generally get better results there than TPB.
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So do I actually....

Anyway, this is nothing new, TPB has bin in and out of DDOS attacks also... I think it would be interesting to check if some of the IPs fall under known P2P blacklists. That is if they are not being spoofed.
 
kioras said:
I doubt the media conglomerates would bother doing something like that, simply because it opens them up to way too much liability.

More likely some bot net manager or someone else got pissed at them for some reason, or is/was trying to extort some money from them.
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Obviously you don't know that it's true that they do pay someone to do it.

Look up Mediadefender and read some of the articles of what they have done.

They did a DDos attack on revision3 because the site had torrents on it. Which were all legit free downloads.
 
Private trackers don't exactly tempt me... I can max out my 6Mb connection and find everything I look for with public trackers, without having to meet any ratios.
 
If you like having to dig through a whole bunch of dead torrents to find what your looking for and at a lower quality then that is fine.
 
Normally sorting by the number of seeders does the trick... if something is of bad quality or has malicious code it doesn't build up many seeders. Then when you find someone who puts out good releases, you don't even have to search anymore.
 
I'm sure private trackers are safer to a degree, but I don't download enough stuff to be worried about that. Never received a single letter my my ISP in all my public tracker using years.
 
Someone must really want to prevent others from getting all that "free" content out there.

amirite?
 
Well I dunno about music cause I don't use bt for that, but if you search mini for "septic" you'll see an insane amount of high quality 720p rips. If I want a movie in 1080p then I do my own encode, which is way faster than downloading would be.
 
I found a torrent with 65k peers just two days ago. It was an unlicensed anime fansub.

Was wondering wtf was up.
 
2gbit? Sounds like the workings of a much larger corporation.
 
MrLonghair said:
I found a torrent with 65k peers just two days ago. It was an unlicensed anime fansub.

Was wondering wtf was up.
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10k - 20k peers is not totally unheard of for Bleach, Naruto, and some of the other more popular, regularly released fansubs. 65k peers is a bit much however.
 
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