After a month of teasing its return, The Pirate Bay team on Saturday finally brought back online the immensely popular torrent download service, almost a day before the planned February 1st relaunch, and users can now enjoy a fully functional website.
FROM EARLIER: There’s talk of mutiny on The Pirate Bay ship
The Pirate Bay was taken offline in early December, after a police raid in Sweden. In the days that followed, the team did not give any clear signs that service will be resumed in spite of the raid, and only in early January preparations for a reboot were clear.
The company replace the counter that was counting the days since the service had been taken offline with a countdown timer pointing to February 1st as a potential relaunch day. Throughout January, more hints were placed on the sites, that suggested the service will be brought back to life, including images teasing a fully functional site, and the Phoenix bird symbol previously used by the team (which is still present on The Pirate Bay’s home page, as seen in the image above).
A few days before the service was supposed to resume activity, a report revealed that a significant part of the team has been removed from The Pirate Bay roster, and that a second version of the site might be soon listed online, and run by the people who lost their positions with the official Pirate Bay site.
Meanwhile, regular Pirate Bay users will have no problem finding their favorite downloads, as nothing appears to have changed — sure, some of the latest releases are not yet listed on the site, but it’s just a matter of time until that happens.
