Popular torrenting resource The Pirate Bay went down in December, after a police raid hit its servers in Sweden, and, surprisingly, stayed down in the days that followed. Soon after that, it became clear that The Pirate Bay wouldn’t be resurrected as quickly as fans would have expected. Two weeks after the attack, the site was back online, although it lacked any functionality. Instead, The Pirate Bay group put up a pirate flag, a timer counting the days since the police raid took it down, and a secret code.
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Interestingly, the group maintaining the site made an important change to it on Thursday. First observed by Torrent Freak, ThePirateBay.se now shows a counter that no longer counts the days since the service became unavailable. Instead, the counter is now counting down (image above) to February 1st.
It’s not clear at this time whether The Pirate Bay will become fully operational again on February 1st, but that’s what the message seems to suggest.
Additionally, Torrent Freak says that the javascript code used to display fireworks on the site also has a “promising name, ‘allishere.js’” that suggests everything should be in order with The Pirate Bay’s backups. Previously, sources said that there might be some issues with the site’s backups following the raid.
Finally, someone close to the team told the publication that “more exciting news,” and an official announcement will be available in the near future.
