The Pirate Bay is down at the moment, so naturally people start to get worried.

Every time the site goes offline for a few minutes thousands of people start to worry that something awful has happened to their beloved site. Luckily, this is usually not the case.

When the site’s not responding someone probably tripped over a cable, they’re working on software upgrades, replacing hardware or facing another technical difficulty.

TorrentFreak contacted the Pirate Bay team and we were told that the current downtime is cause by a Power Distribution Unit (PDU) failure.

It may take a while before the site returns, When there’s an update we’ll post something here.

Update (October 2): TPB should come back soon