Rise of the Piratebay
Recently the Piratebay has come back online from the grave like a phoenix arises from its ashes. What’s happened to the Piratebay and how did they resolve it. As you may know the Piratebay has been raided by the Swiss Police on 9th December 2014. It took quite some time to recover from it. A month later the Official Piratebay came back online with a message and a picture of a phoenix. The message states that the site would be back online in 30 days, they showed this with a countdown.
While the Piratebay was not serving any torrents, other sites were. Some went even further and hijacked the Piratebay name. They pretended to be the Piratebay and used that to initiate press releases with their website link. That’s not everything yet. They also uploaded new torrent files with popular user names to uphold the deceit that they are the member of the Piratebay. While not everybody was willing to cheat the public most of the Piratebay mirror’s made it clear that they are a Piratebay Proxy and not the official one.
Early Februari the Piratebay started to provide torrents to the public once again. What did they do different this time to stay ahead of the raiding police. The biggest change they made is having multiple domain names providing the file sharing service. This is done so that if a domain name gets taken away from them, people will still be able to access them. By spreading the domains across a few servers It will be much harder for the anti-piracy groups to put the whole operation offline.
The Anti-Piracy groups are trying to get the Piratebay website blocked in every country. This has created a huge gap for proxies to take their place. Since users in the UK ( ISP has blocked most of the torrent sites) still want to watch their shows and movies they make use of a proxy which gives them indirect access to the Piratebay library of torrents.