PirateBay sets a count timer for return soon. Are they coming back?.

The Pirate Bay has long been a thorn in the side of the numerous bodies representing the music, film and software industries. Often seen as a hub of flagrant copyright infringement, those behind The Pirate Bay have never been afraid to give as good as they’ve got, and having recently been raided for the umpteenth time, the site has launched an interesting landing page counting down the days to February 1st.

Precisely what will be unleashed in one month’s time is a matter of speculation, and given that this is The Pirate Bay we’re talking about here, it’s particularly difficult to pinpoint exactly what may be about to go down. Just after the raid, a countdown was added that kept track of time that had passed since the powers that be had intervened. Now, it’s counting towards something, the subject of which has piqued the interest of the peer-to-peer community.

For the past decade, The Pirate Bay has felt the wrath of companies like the RIAA and IFPI, but despite being inundated with court hearings and so forth, is apparently standing strong where many others have folded. Blocked in many countries, The Pirate Bay has a seemingly endless number of proxies and mirroring sites allowing torrenters to get their fill regardless of government intervention, and although it has taken yet another body blow thanks to the recent shut-down, the animated flag currently waving on the site’s home page is yet another show of defiance and resilience.

The Pirate Bay is more than just a torrent indexing site. It’s something of a movement, frequently engaging in rallies, activism, and the long, tiresome fight against perceived injustice. Its resumption is, to many, essential, and while there’s no telling whether it’ll be making a comeback on February 1st, it seems more than likely that we’ve not seen the last of a site that simply refuses to buckle even under the most intense pressure.

Whatever the folks behind The Pirate Bay have up their sleeves – aside from hooks, of course – we’ll be keeping an eye out for further developments over the next few weeks, so stay tuned to our coverage here.

Wow amazing. Piratebay made it to 2015. Happy New Year to them. Pirate Bay is still there.??? This is fake.

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Filesharing site The Pirate Bay remains offline after a Swedish police raid on the 9th of December last year, despite reports that the site had been restored at a Costa Rican domain.

Visitors to the site are shown the familiar homepage but are unable to search for content, due to the website being nothing more than a proxy for the main site hosted out of Sweden.

Police raided the website's hosting provider in Stockholm  after a complaint was filed by the Rights Alliance, which campaigns against piracy and is also based in the Swedish capital.

Sara Lindback, the chief of Rights Alliance, said: "The Pirate Bay is an illegal commercial service that makes considerable earnings by infringing the works of others. The infringements affect all creators and it also hinders the growth of the legal services."

Filesharing prosecutor Fredrik Ingblad told Radio Sweden that "a number of police officers and digital forensics experts" were at the raid, during which "several servers and computers were seized".

As of yet no evidence has emerged that the domains hosting the site have been seized, with the main one carrying the Swedish .se domain extension.

In the past the site has proved resilient to police action, though its three founders have all faced arrest or prison time during 2013 over a range of charges.