After nearly two weeks of downtime the official domain of The Pirate Bay is showing signs of life. For now ThePirateBay.se is only waving a pirate flag, but that’s good enough to give many Pirate Bay users hope for a full recovery.
On December 9 The Pirate Bay was raided at the Nacka station, a nuclear-proof data center built into a mountain complex near Stockholm.
Despite the rise of various TPB clones and rumors of reincarnations, thepiratebay.se domain remained inaccessible, until today.
This morning the Pirate Bayās nameservers were updatedto ones controlled by their domain name registrar binero.se
A few minutes ago came another big change when The Pirate Bayās main domain started pointing to a new IP-address (178.175.135.122) connected to a server hosted in Moldova.
The DNS changes havenāt propagated everywhere yet, but soon most people should see the following landing page.
TorrentFreak asked both the Pirate Bay and Isohunt.to crews for a comment, thus far without a response. It could be that TPB and Isohunt.to are collaborating on something, hopefully weāll hear more on that soon.
A few days ago Isohunt.to launched āThe Open Bayā initiative, which allows anyone to run a ācopyā of The Pirate Bay. The TPB crew previously said that it would like to see as many clones as possible, so perhaps the domain will link to that for the time being.
āWeāve always lived by Kopimi. We love being cloned. It would be amazing if, like in the classic movie Spartacus, everyone could stand up and say āI am The Pirate Bay,ā TPBās Mr 10100100000 told us earlier.
Time will tell whether Pirate Bayās ācomebackā will be a full one, an encouragement for people to start their own clones, or something completely different.
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Update: Thepiratebay.se A records now appear to be empty.
