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The Pirate Bay logo. Facebook image. Dec. 17, 2014.
Christian Post Report – The Pirate Bay recently went offline at the start of the weekend following news it had successfully thrown off ISP blocks after it returned earlier this year.
Peer-to-peer file sharing website The Pirate Bay alarmed users when it became unresponsive and went offline Friday, despite news that emerged it was effectively thwarting blocks from ISPs after its resurgence at the beginning of February following its December 2014 closure.
Showing an error message: “Error 521 Web server is down,” this is apparently not the first time the BitTorrent site has exhibited this message. Users also experienced the same issues earlier this month when the popular media file sharing site went offline.
The hosting error message indicated the site’s web server, managed by CloudFlare wasn’t returning a connection. However, CloudFlare offers an Always Online feature that allows users to access The Pirate Bay’s offline pages, enabling them to “continue to surf a snapshot of the site,” a message displayed read.
Users reported the site was down, but were able to access and download from the site via https://thepiratebay.se/search. Some users also reported erratic access, but continued trying to log in and were able to access the site after a few tries.
With the website down, other file sharing sites like Kicka– Torrents, Yi-Fy, TorrentDay and Demonoid absorbed some of the fallout with users gravitating to their sites after TPB access proved unsuccessful.
The Pirate Bay’s Nacka station data center was raided by Swedish Polish in December 2014 and was shut down for violating copyright law. After a teaser countdown clock appeared on its site in January, featuring a phoenix rising from the ashes, it came back online in February 1, 2015, equipped with new ISP block evading capabilities courtesy of its partnership with CloudFlare, a US-based domain name server and content delivery network system.
Source : Christian Post