The Pirate Bay has been hard to reach for nearly a day, causing concern among some BitTorrent users. The outage is likely caused by technical issues, so the site is expected to rebounce soon. Meanwhile, some of the site's proxies and its Tor domain are still working fine.
The main Pirate Bay domain has been offline for nearly a day now.
For most people, the site currently displays a Cloudflare error message across the entire site, with the CDN provider referring to a “bad gateway.”
No further details are available to us and there is no known ETA for the site’s full return. Judging from past experience, however, it’s likely a small technical hiccup that needs fixing. There are no issues with the domain name itself.
Pirate Bay downtime, bad gateway
TorrentFreak reached out to the TPB team but we have yet to hear more about the issue. The Pirate Bay has had quite a few stints of downtime in recent months. The popular torrent site usually returns after several hours.
Amid the downtime, there’s still some good news for those who desperately need to access the notorious torrent site. TPB is still available via its .onion address on the Tor network, accessible using the popular Tor Browser, for example. The site’s Tor traffic goes through a separate server and works just fine.
The same is true for some of The Pirate Bay’s proxy sites, which are still working fine and showing new torrents.
The main .org domain will probably be back in action soon enough, but seasoned TPB users will probably know the drill by now…
The Pirate Bay is not the only torrent site facing problems at the moment. The popular ExtraTorrent copy ExtraTorrent.ag has been suffering downtime for more than a week, without a word from its operators.