The Pirate Bay founder teams up Adblock Plus to revolutionize ad industry plus TPB and KickassTorrent uploader to pay €7500 (Photo : Twitter/The Pirate Bay)

The Pirate Bay website is facing downtime as TPB is offline because of host error. Back in October, the website faced similar downtimes because of host error.



At the moment, The Pirate Bay is offline as the page shows Error 522 Connection timed out. According to the page, the browser and CloudFlare are operational, however TPB is facing problems at the host level.




"The initial connection between CloudFlare's network and the origin web server timed out. As a result, the web page can not be displayed," reads the message on The Pirate Bay's landing page.



The visitors are instructed to try again in a few minutes. "Contact your hosting provider letting them know your web server is not completing requests. An Error 522 means that the request was able to connect to your web server, but that the request didn't finish. The most likely cause is that something on your server is hogging resources. Additional troubleshooting information here," reads the instruction for the owner of the website.



Meanwhile, Peter Sunde, co-founder of The Pirate Bay has built a new copying machine. "I want to show the absurdity on the process of putting a value to a copy. The machine is made to be very blunt and open about the fact that it's not a danger to any industry at all," Sunde says to TorrentFreak.



"But following their rhetoric and mindset it will bankrupt them. I want to show with a physical example - that also is really beautiful in it's own way - that putting a price to a copy is futile."

