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Paul Mutton

Attacks continue against Finnish anti-piracy website

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Finnish anti-piracy organisation TTVK is still under attack after it successfully applied for one of the country’s largest ISPs to block access to the popular bittorrent tracker, The Pirate Bay. The Helsinki District Court ordered Elisa Oyj to implement the block, and Elisa responded by appealing the decision to the Helsinki Court of Appeal.

In protest against the block, AnonFinland called for its supporters to “fire their cannons” at the TTVK’s antipiracy.fi website, which quickly succumbed to the attack. Anonymous has issued similar calls to arms in the past – most notably towards the end of 2010, when WikiLeaks supporters successfully used the LOIC tool (Low Orbit Ion Cannon) to attack the websites of Visa, MasterCard and PayPal.


Shortly after calling for the site to be attacked, AnonFinland tweeted a now-customary “tango down” message, signifying that the attack had succeeded. With a Netcraft site rank of only 435586, it is likely that antipiracy.fi was typically not accustomed to large volumes of traffic. This, coupled with the fact that the site does not make use of a CDN to increase redundancy or reduce network latency, may have made the organisation an easy target.


antipiracy.fi – which is coincidentally hosted by Elisa Oyj – was still down at the time of publication.