<ul><li>BYOND, an online game platform, has been facing severe DDoS attacks for nearly two weeks, rendering it and its supported titles inaccessible.</li><li>Hackers behind the attacks are pressuring the site's owners to make the platform open source, but owners are resisting this ransom demand.</li><li>The DDoS attack began on May 10th, and efforts to resolve the crisis with the provider are ongoing with no estimated time for full restoration as of May 22nd.</li><li>BYOND is well-known for hosting the popular multiplayer sim Space Station 13 and is currently working on Space Station 14, which can be found on Steam.</li></ul>

Hackers are trying to use DDoS attacks to pressure open game platform BYOND to go open source

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