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The Pirate Bay comes back online seven weeks after police raid

The Pirate Bay comes back online seven weeks after police raid

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A phoenix has replaced the iconic pirate ship atop The Pirate Bay today, celebrating the site's rise from the ashes. The torrent site's servers were raided by Swedish police forces over seven weeks ago, and has been offline ever since. But today, The Pirate Bay lives once more.

At the time of the police raid in the greater Stockholm area last month, it wasn't clear whether The Pirate Bay would ever return. The site and its founders have been relentlessly persecuted by authorities, with many of its original creators either behind bars or separated from the torrent site.

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But The Pirate Bay has proven to be incredibly resilient. While it isn't clear how the site has come back online this time, it is known that the site runs off of "virtual" servers hosted by secret cloud storage companies around the world. That means there isn't a single server room that holds The Pirate Bay as we know it — and therefore there's no real way to shut down the site for good. The server room raided in Stockholm is said to have been the location of the site's front-end load balancer, which is necessary to keep the site online, but is not irreplaceable.