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About a month ago, a story was submitted to another site that the Pirate Bay domain name was back online. That story mentioned a timer, which supposedly showed the time since the police raid on the pirate bay servers. I didn't notice at the time, but a more recent check showed this counter was counting down, not up, with a time to reach zero at the end of January. Sometime around a week ago, the waving pirate flag video changed to a graphic of an orange phoenix, and a disabled search box showed up. I've been watching the site since, and now, about 12 hours before the timer was to reach zero, the site is back up, complete with searches.
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The Pirate Bay is Back Online, Properly
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History repeats itself -- the first time as a tragi-comedy, the second
time as bedroom farce.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by sigma on Sunday February 01 2015, @07:55AM
It appears that they're IP logging every visitor to the new TPB. Beware, it's likely a honeypot.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 01 2015, @10:04AM
> It appears that they're IP logging every visitor to the new TPB.
How would you even know that?
If you are referring to some 3rd party web-bug or the like, the original piratebay was loaded with ads served by a ton of 3rd party ad networks.