denial of service

While there have always been suspicions that anti-piracy outfits are actively DDoSing torrent sites, when the boss of the Indian company AiPlex Software admitted to using these tactics in public it still came as a shock.

Well, this is bizarre. A few hours ago, we received an email to our copyright notice email address from Aiplex, an Indian anti-piracy/SEO/medical transcription company.

You may remember the company because we wrote a short post about them over a year ago, when its CEO said in an interview that it would resort to denial of service attacks on sites that didn't cooperate.

We also noted that the somewhat confused company listed "Bram Cohen" as a type of BitTorrent client.

The WebGL 3-D graphics specification implemented in Firefox and Chrome, and included in Safari, is subject to denial of service attacks.

After recovering from the largest Distributed Denial of Service attack in the service's history (

British police have arrested five people for their alleged participation in some of the highly-publicized DDoS attacks last month.

The five individuals - all males, between the ages of 15 and 26 - were arrested after a series of raids in the West Midlands, Northamptonshire, Herfordshire, Surrey and London.

The five are being held on suspicion of being involved in Anonymous, the loose affiliation of "hacktivists" who have targeted a number of websites, including MasterCard, Visa and PayPal, with distributed denial of service attacks.

These attacks followed WikiLeaks' release of US diplomatic

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Datamation: "EveryDNS.net, a group providing free domain name services, terminated WikiLeaks' service followed what it described as a severe distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack."

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There's an entertainment industry lawyer who once used his blog to suggest that I had an "army of hackers" at my disposal that I would order to send a denial of service attack against anyone I disagreed with.

I thought that was pretty funny in how ridiculous a claim it was. Beyond the fact that I can barely get my dog to follow my instructions (and I feed her!), let alone anyone who reads this site, I think that denial of service attacks are a pretty dumb idea.

It does nothing but piss off people and doesn't make any real point at all.

Anti-piracy outfit AiPlex Software made the news last week when its boss was quoted in the press admitting that his company launched DoS attacks against uncooperative torrent sites.

Although the reports and quotes were quite specific, the company is now trying to distance itself from the claims.

However, correspondence obtained by TorrentFreak shows another side to these unorthodox Bollywood anti-piracy enforcers.

“When we detect a website offering a link or a download, we contact the server hosts and intimate them about the illegal activity.