Whose Downloading What? The Feds Want To Know

[NickHedge]

Pirate Bay's Booty of Email Addresses Plundered
By: Chloe Albanesius
07.08.2010

Hackers in Argentina have accessed the e-mail and IP addresses and usernames for more than four million Pirate Bay users. A group of three hackers have claimed responsibility for the hack and posted a video detailing just how they did it.

"The community caused problems to huge companies and corporations which turned into threats between this companies and them," wrote hacker CH Russo. "What we have done, we did not do it with anger, or for commercial value. As always, we saw the change, the moment and decided to take it. The protocol or procedure done to achieve this wasn't anything out of the ordinary."

What will actually be done with those names and e-mail addresses is certainly in question--it would no doubt be of some value to the RIAA and MPAA, copyright organizations that have legally threatened a number of file shares in the past.

In the meantime, The Pirate Bay is down for maintenance, carrying the following message, "Upgrading some stuff, database is in use for backups, soon back again. Btw, it's nice weather outside I think."

Link: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2366190,00.asp

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Yeah I saw the message yesterday when I tried the page and it came back up sometime yesterday evening late. The funny thing was that Demonoid went down and stayed down the same amount of time that Pirate Bay did. Coincidence? I think not.

[h3rm35]

This article has absolutely nothing to do with Feds... why did you use that title?

both torrent sites are probably working on security. I doubt it's coincidence, but I doubt it's sinister, too.

[Shinobi]

Quite strange indeed, and im on about the title that has been used here.