{"id":120274,"date":"2017-08-31T10:44:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T08:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=120274"},"modified":"2017-08-31T10:45:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T08:45:24","slug":"the-pirate-bay-knocked-offline-by-game-of-thrones-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/120274-the-pirate-bay-knocked-offline-by-game-of-thrones-traffic","title":{"rendered":"The Pirate Bay knocked offline by Game of Thrones traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pirate Bay went down earlier this week thanks to a surge in traffic caused by users accessing the season finale of Game of Thrones,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/game-thrones-traffic-surge-slowed-pirate-bay-170830\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TorrentFreak reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic to the world\u2019s most popular torrent index quadrupled on Monday and it had to deal with millions of extra visitors.<\/p>\n<p>While The Pirate Bay said it can handle traffic peaks, the massive surge was difficult to manage.<\/p>\n<p>The surge affected other torrent sites too, especially after The Pirate Bay went down. One site operator told TorrentFreak that the spike in traffic was so unprecedented it looked like a DDoS attack.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, there were seven Game of Thrones torrents in The Pirate Bay\u2019s top 10 most popular torrents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/The-Pirate-Bay-top-10-31-August-2017.jpg\" data-slb-active=\"1\" data-slb-asset=\"447960959\" data-slb-internal=\"0\" data-slb-group=\"slb\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-227067 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/The-Pirate-Bay-top-10-31-August-2017-640x315.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/The-Pirate-Bay-top-10-31-August-2017-640x315.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/The-Pirate-Bay-top-10-31-August-2017-600x295.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/The-Pirate-Bay-top-10-31-August-2017-768x378.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/The-Pirate-Bay-top-10-31-August-2017.jpg 900w\" alt=\"The Pirate Bay top 10 - 31 August 2017\" width=\"640\" height=\"315\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/224602-game-of-thrones-pirates-arrested-for-leaking-episode-online.html\">Game of Thrones pirates arrested for leaking episode online<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pirate Bay went down earlier this week thanks to a surge in traffic caused by users accessing the season finale of Game of Thrones,\u00a0TorrentFreak reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":102909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25010,4555,3949],"class_list":["post-120274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-finale","tag-game-of-thrones","tag-pirate-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120276,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120274\/revisions\/120276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}