The Pirate Bay has become unreachable since a few hours.
It’s currently not clear what’s causing the problems. There might be a hardware issue, hosting problem or a software glitch, issues that have occurred many times in the site’s history.
What we do know is that the site’s domain names are not the culprit.
The Pirate Bay currently displays a CloudFlare error message across all domain names, suggesting that TPB’s servers are unresponsive.
With the raid of last year still fresh in memory some fear the worst, but these concerns are unwarranted for now.
In fact, the site is still accessible via the Tor network (through http://uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion/), including the popular Pirate Browser.
The Tor traffic goes through a separate server and works just fine.
TorrentFreak reached out to The Pirate Bay team for a comment on the situation and we will update this article if we hear back.
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