Even though these past few months have been somewhat scary for popular torrent communities, with Demonoid getting busted and UKNova willfully taking itself out of the game to avoid a future legal issue, the most popular torrenting community, The Pirate Bay, is still holding strong. Except, at the time of this writing, it actually isn’t holding together too well. The Pirate Bay is down as of this post, but don’t fret, it’s not due to some legal issue.

Whenever The Pirate Bay goes down, torrenting enthusiasts pretty much freak out — partly because TPB is a fairly easy community in which to find what torrent one is looking for, but also because it’s the biggest target to get shutdown, and has experience various legal issues in the past. However, luckily for fans, the torrent site hasn’t hit any legal snag, and is simply down due to power failure. Word is that the The Pirate Bay has simply hit a power failure due to a problem with a power distribution unit, which couldn’t be more appropriately named in relation to a power failure.

So, never fear, torrenters, you’ll simply have to wait a bit, or try an alternative site, before you can download all that Sunday TV you missed last night.

(via TorrentFreak)

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