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The suspense over whether The Pirate Bay, one of the Internet's most controversial file-sharing sites, will finally and truly be resurrected.
For the past week, visitors to The Pirate Bay website (thepiratebay.se) have been greeted with a clock counting down to noon of Sunday, Feb. 1 (PHL time).
An image of a phoenix, which represents resurrection, was featured on the page, along with an animation of a pirate ship heading for a haven.
The Hacker News said (http://thehackernews.com/2015/01/pirate-bay-torrent-website.html) this could indicate a relaunch on Feb. 1 of the site that went dark after authorities in Sweden raided its facilities.
According to THN, the TPB homepage also displayed a search box and categories but are not active yet.
Not first time
THN said this was not the first time TPB used a phoenix logo - it last did so in 2006, when the site was raided by police.
It added TPB had been shut down several times but managed to get back by changing its top-level domain.
Update:
Popular torrenting site The Pirate Bay is back after it was shut down by Swedish police late last year. While tons of copies popped up after the original disappeared, the swift resurrection of thepiratebay.se makes it clear that it's damn near impossible to stop determined pirates.
People are already uploading and downloading torrents again, and it looks like the police seizure didn't result in much data loss. It's not clear whether this revamped version of the old site will impact OldPirateBay, Isotorrent's replacement option.
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