Renegade torrent site The Pirate Bay has added a digital clock and a line of scrambled text, which may be an encryption key, to its website at .

On Monday the site, shut down by Swedish police on December 9, showed the first signs of a potential resurrection when it added a looping video of a black pirate flag.

Reverse countdown: A digital clock at thepiratebay.se marks the amount of time since The Pirate Bay has been out of action. Credit:Screenshot: thepiratebay.se

Now a digital clock has been added, showing roughly the amount of time the site has not been available to search for pirated files –14 days and counting.

Another addition is a line of jumbled characters at the bottom of the screen: "JyO7wNzc8xht47QKWohfDVj6Sc2qH+X5tBCT+uetocIJcjQnp/2f1ViEBR+ty0Cz".