The Pirate Bay has been hard to reach for more than a day, causing concern among some BitTorrent users. The outage is likely due to 'technical' issues, so the site is expected to resurface soon. Meanwhile, some of the site's proxies and its Tor domain are still working fine.
The Pirate Bay has been hard to reach since last weekend.
For most people, the site currently displays a CloudFlare error message across the entire site, with the CDN provider mentioning that a “bad gateway” is causing the issue.
As usual, no further details are available to us and there is no known ETA for the site’s full return. However, judging from past experience, it’s likely a small technical issue that needs fixing.
The Pirate Bay has had quite a few stints of downtime in years. The popular torrent site usually returns after several hours, but outages of more than a day have become more common recently.
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. Several dedicated TPB proxies are still up as well.
The Pirate Bay team has a status page in the forums where people can check to see if an outage is affecting everyone or not. This also shows that the Tor version of the site is working fine, and that new torrents are still coming through.
The main .org domain will probably be back in action soon enough, but seasoned TPB users will probably know the drill by now…
