{"id":4302,"date":"2016-04-26T01:53:54","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T01:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/?p=4302"},"modified":"2016-04-26T01:53:54","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T01:53:54","slug":"pirate-bays-image-hosting-site-bayimg-returns-for-a-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/?p=4302","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Bay\u2019s Image Hosting Site \u2018Bayimg\u2019 Returns, For a Bit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/images\/pirate-bay.jpg\" alt=\"pirate bay\" width=\"200\" height=\"207\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-53470\">When a Pirate Bay server <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/pirate-bay-what-raid-police-never-got-our-servers-150921\/\">was raided late 2014<\/a> several related projects were pulled offline as well, including the site&#8217;s image hosting service Bayimg and Pastebay.<\/p>\n<p>While the torrent site itself eventually returned after two months, the other sites remained offline. However, a few days ago something changed. <\/p>\n<p>Without an official announcement <a href=\"http:\/\/bayimg.com\/\">Bayimg<\/a> resurfaced as if nothing ever happened. Suddenly, former users could access their images again and upload new files, although the latter may not be wise. <\/p>\n<p>TorrentFreak reached out to the TPB team to find out what the plans are, and we were informed that the comeback is only temporary. <\/p>\n<p>The site will remain online for a week or so. This allows people to secure their files, if needed, but in a few days the site will close its doors again. Apparently, the TPB team prefers to focus exclusively on the torrent site.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bayimg<\/strong><br \/><\/br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/images\/bayimg600.png\" alt=\"bayimg600\" width=\"600\" height=\"280\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-121349\"><\/p>\n<p>This means that the image hosting service won&#8217;t celebrate its tenth anniversary next year. <\/p>\n<p>Bayimg was founded <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/the-pirate-bay-launches-uncensored-image-hosting\/\">in 2007<\/a> as one of many TPB side-projects and promoted as a censorship free hosting platform. It was particularly popular among torrent uploaders, who used it to host screenshots.<\/p>\n<p>However, history has shown that not all Pirate Bay projects are finished, and they certainly don&#8217;t always survive. Responding to this criticism the Imgbay team listed a response in its FAQ, which still applies today. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We do whatever we want, whenever we want. If it doesn&#8217;t suit you, you can start your own empire,&#8221; the team said back in 2007. <\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/\">TF<\/a>, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/top-10-most-popular-torrent-sites-of-2016-160102\/\">torrent sites<\/a> and  <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/vpn-provider-anonymous-review-160220\/\">ANONYMOUS VPN services<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Torrentfreak?a=zBjnSO0XcLw:fCOrIrl1IoU:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Torrentfreak?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Torrentfreak?a=zBjnSO0XcLw:fCOrIrl1IoU:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Torrentfreak?i=zBjnSO0XcLw:fCOrIrl1IoU:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Torrentfreak\/~4\/zBjnSO0XcLw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nSource: TorrentFreak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a Pirate Bay server was raided late 2014 several related projects were pulled offline as well, including the site&#8217;s image hosting service Bayimg and Pastebay. While the torrent site itself eventually returned after two months, the other sites remained offline. However, a few days ago something changed. Without an official announcement Bayimg resurfaced as &#8230; <a title=\"Pirate Bay\u2019s Image Hosting Site \u2018Bayimg\u2019 Returns, For a Bit\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/?p=4302\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}