The website of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is said to have been effectively downed for six days.
According to Netcraft, a British internet services company, the site has not been reachable for six days, owing to a continued distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack by a variant of the MyDoom worm.
2002. This time around, it appears that, since the problem stems from a worm variant, it is going to be difficult to stop.