The sunken wreck of the Pirate Bay may return to the murky waters of the Internet next weekend, judging by a countdown timer and images of a rising Phoenix that have appeared on its website.

The timer is currently counting down towards zero and is now at just over 5 days, but there’s no clue yet what will happen when it eventually reaches zero. The website also shows the familiar Pirate Bay ship which is sailing towards an island named “welcome home”, hopefully signalling the imminent return of the “galaxy’s most resilient BitTorrent site”.

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Pirate Bay set to return on Sunday

Apparently, those in the know have already hinted that Pirate Bay will indeed make a return soon. Andy Maxwell from TorrentFreak has said recently that “Via a web server in Moldova, those behind the Pirate Bay have been posting various hints and teasers suggesting that the current downtime will come to an end <on February 1>”

There is still an ongoing Swedish investigation into the site, which resulted in a police raid in December of 2014 followed by the site being down. Since that incident, the owners of Pirate Bay said they couldn’t care less about the raid and the shutdown of the popular download site.

However, the new timer and images on the website hint that the dozens of people who run Pirate Bay have finally decided to get things up and running again, although nobody is quite sure yet what form it will take.

No doubt all will be revealed on Sunday, as the countdown timer reaches zero.

Have you used The Pirate Bay in the past? Will you use it again if it’s resurrected on Sunday as expected? As ever, let us know your thoughts in the comments below.

SOURCE: The Guardian