Riot apologise for League of Legends disconnections

by **SoBeTRoLL** » Sun Feb 23, 2014 1:27 pm

http://www.pcgamesn.com/leagueoflegends ... inues-grow

by **SoBeTRoLL** » Mon Feb 24, 2014 6:16 pm

For the several weeks, there have been SEVERE DDOS attacks against the Riot Servers. They've had to go down multiple times and disable Queues and everytime they think things are balancing out, they get hit again. The last three days, every day, they have gotten hit. Now, I don't know what can be done about it, or if there is anything that the public can do to stop it, but I gotta say, it has severely pissed me off.

I own every champ, I've played since 2009, and I know more about that game that most people. It is by far one of my favorite video games to play, and right now I'm watching it crash and burn before my eyes, and theres nothing I can do to stop it. So, if there are people out there that are network administrators, IT Managers, IT Specialists, or even just general White Hat Hackers out there with solutions to large data centers being the target of a DDOS attack, please, help them out.

I have nothing against the ability to protest something with a DDOS attack as a form of protest, but constantly taking down one of the largest gaming servers over and over again with no real reason, is not protest, it is an attack on a corporate business structure and could very well do damage overall to how video games are played online.

by **d31373** » Tue Feb 25, 2014 7:17 am

Unfortunately this is common with any game server. Normally they are privately held servers by clans. I've run many game servers in my life and I've had to take measures to stop DDoS attempts. In those cases I doubt it was "protest".
I believe that federally DDoS attempts are considered "Attacks on Protected Systems" (even though many intellegence agencies have used the same attavks agains similar groups) which is considered a crime. If groups want to protest, we (collectively as a community) need to determine a new form of online protest that doesn't violate laws.
DDoS is a form of censorship which shouldn't be seen as a viable form of protest, especially when most groups DDoS'ing are protesting censorship.