The Pirate Bay Goes Down

Pirate Bay is down

The Pirate Bay is having some issues and users cannot access the site from what appears to be anywhere in the world. 

Upon visiting The Pirate Bay official site users get greeted by Error 502, indicating a bad gateway, namely that one server received an invalid response from another server.

What's more, there's a Cloudflare notification, indicating your request for The Pirate Bay went through a Warsaw Cloudflare server, but could not reach the host Thepiratebay.org server. This means the problem sits in the site's servers.

Isitdownrightnow puts The Pirate Bay's outage at over 13 hours, with people from all over the world complaining about issues, including China, Canada, Argentina, USA, Spain, Greece, South Africa and so on. The problem is pretty much worldwide at this point.

It is unknown why the site is down, other than it having some server issues. The site's official social media accounts have not released any information about the problems they are having.

In the past, The Pirate Bay has been known to suffer quite a bit of downtime, but that happened mostly because the site was forced to jump from domain to domain as it was chased off by copyright holders putting pressure on the registrars.

Deja Vu

Users are quite concerned about the site going down this time, however, because just recently Extratorrent went down for more than a day before announcing that it was shutting down. Then too, the note welcoming people when trying to visit the site showed a problem with the site's server.

Extratorrent was the second most popular torrent site after The Pirate Bay, welcoming millions of visitors each day. In many ways, ExtraTorrent was preferred by many over The Pirate Bay, due to the content being hosted there. Hopefully, we won't see another popular site going into the sunset so soon.

Update:

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The Pirate Bay is back up and running. Still no word about why the site went down, although people on the site's forums are saying it might be because of the extra traffic coming from former ExtraTorrent users.

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