First you would need to find the load balancer, which means you would first need to go after their router, then get the cooperation of a second country. Then you would need the cooperation of two more countries to get at the cloud providers...
... only for The Pirate Bay to spin up more instances elsewhere and point a domain or two at it.
I was just pointing out a method that would be considerably more simple to pull off than a timing attack. I recognise that there are still numerous steps that would need to be taken to pull it off.
... only for The Pirate Bay to spin up more instances elsewhere and point a domain or two at it.