Demonoid is a large scale private torrent site. It has been attacked many times with DoS attacks from various people or groups. In certain instance like this one, I can see the reasoning of the person launching the DoS but it's still unethical. Granted Demonoid caters to pirating music, movies, and software. They do however, have alot of good free distributable content and it's often faster to get it from torrent than the original source. As a result of this DoS, users were unable to access the site to get torrents for literally months. While this negatively effects Demonid, I'm sure it had little effect on the overall torrent market. Traffic was just pushed to other popular sites such as The Pirate Bay.
Mennecke, Thomas (2010) "Demonoid Suffers from Massive Denial of Service Attack" Retrieved from: http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1947
I didn't really think about pirating websites having DoS attacks. Although these attacks are mostly "wrong", I think it could possibly be justified for this type of website. People shouldn't be allowed to download everything for free, and I think the more these attacks occur on these websites, the more people might get annoyed and stop trying to download free music and movies.
ReplyDeleteI honestly use torrents for legitimate reasons quite a bit. If you have ever had a hard time re-installing xp media center edition on a Toshiba and needed an oem disk to go with the key on the bottom you would appreciate torrent sites. Of course that is just one of many examples I can give.
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