Norwegian BitTorrent tracker under DDoS attack
"In an NFO file obtained by IT-Avisen, a group called MORRADi takes responsibility for the attack on Norbits. “Once again we show our power! Once again we show your foolishness! This is not the first time we have done it, and it won’t be the last,” they write (translated).
“Enough is enough, you are becoming a real nuisance, and you are also a bunch of idiots that try to hide, so it’s high time we punish you! P2P is not something we want, when will you understand that? Do we have to take it as far as publishing your user database online?”"
This is the second time the tracker has been under a DDoS attack for the past two years, and no matter how futile the ambitions of the attackers are in respect to targeting the tracker due to the fact that it's promoting the use of P2P, the success of Norbits seems to have already pissed off the local warez scene.
Further investigation indicates a conflict of interest on the Norwegian warez scene, with old school FTP warez groups
Just when you through that the major threat a BitTorrent tracker faces is the threat from the entertainment industry and the local intellectual property enforcing organizations, fractions of the "warez scene" are waging a war against P2P. Will they also start targeting the mainstream torrent trackers?