Like the legend of the phoenix, The Pirate Bay refuses to go away.
After seven weeks of downtime in the digital ashes of the ubiquitous web, The Pirate Bay (TPB) has risen again, and this time it’s trying to make sure shut-down incidents are checked for good. TPB’s servers were raided early December at the Nacka station in Sweden, nine years after a similar attack knocked the site out for three days.
The latest attack left TPB in the sticks for the whole of two week before it came back online to announce a five-week comeback timeline.
The website had since returned on a familiar domain name, but according to reports on TorrentFreak, there are hardline measures in place to prevent a third strike. “The Pirate Bay staff can no longer access the moderation panel. This kind of streamlining would make the site easier to manage and reduce the risk of being brought down for a third time,” the reports says quoting TPB staff.
Not everyone is on board with the new measures though. Reports on TorrentFreak say that the planned ‘optimizations’ caused mutiny among the site’s original staff members with some already planning to launch a new “official” version of TPB.
TPB is arguably the largest torrent site out there and has been described as the largest threat to the entertainment industry. Interestingly, early stats reveal that there was no substantial drop in torrent activities and piracy rates over the period for which TPB was down. This begs the question of whether fighting online piracy using medieval style brute force can deliver.
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