The Pirate Bay is down at the moment, causing a mild panic among many BitTorrent users. With the raid of last December fresh in mind some fear the worst, but as of yet there is no indication that the site has been hit again.
Exactly two weeks after the long-awaited comeback, The Pirate Bay appears to be in trouble again.
It’s currently not clear what’s causing the problems. There might be a hardware issue, routing problem or a software glitch, issues that have occurred many times in the site’s history.
However, after the prolonged downtime earlier this year many people are now fearing the worst.
The site’s domain name is working properly and the nameservers appear to be setup correctly too, so those variables can be ruled out.
The Pirate Bay currently displays a CloudFlare error message suggesting that TPB’s servers are unresponsive.
Torrent Freak caught the downtime around 2:45 PM EST. It’s not clear what is causing the issue at the moment. While it may very well be a hardware or software glitch on the server side, users may worry it’s something more serious given recent history.
For reference, the Pirate Bay was just resurrected two weeks ago, following a Swedish raid in early December.
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source:torrentfreak
