Over the past few days we have noticed an increase of traffic, closer inspection revealed that a whole range of ip's was downloading random pages from the site. After running a couple of tests and monitoring for a few days we've noticed that the involved ip's all belong to BayTSP, an infamous anti piracy group that seems to be attacking us in a DDOS kind of way. At a peak their servers (over 5000 of them) request numerous pages in an attempt to deny access to legit users. While this is no problem for us as we have a hardware firewall with DOS detection, other and more smaller sites could go down because of this.

When we contacted Megapath, the ISP of BayTSP and explained the situation the asshole operator (his name was Mike) told me to fuck off because the ip's I've sent didn't belong to them. While running a whois query on the ip's it's pretty clear to whom those addresses belong. Apparently BayTSP has running so many servers that are being hosted by Megapath that they simply don't give a shit about our formal complaint. In fact this is the second time that I had to call them, last time was in January when I got the same response. So what is it that we can do about this legally? Well, we are considering legal action against both companies for sabotage and damages that were caused in terms of bandwidth costs. We have already blocked all ip's that we could trace to them and I'm sure that more will be added to the firewall soon.

If we take legal action there is a good chance that they will suffer a great blow as we have proof of the attacks in the form of log files with over 5000 ip's that belong to BayTSP and Megapath. In the next few days we will discuss our options with our legal team and take it further from there.

Stay tuned for more updates in the days ahead.

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