The Pirate Bay Rises Again, Back Online Two Months After Swedish Police Raid Two months after police raid, a slimmed down version of piracy site is back.

 -- The Pirate Bay is back online two months after Swedish authorities delivered what had appeared to be a fatal blow to the notorious file-sharing website.

Following the longest outage in the history of the decade-old website, a slimmed down version of The Pirate Bay came back online over the weekend along with a new logo: A Phoenix rising from the flames.

The new iteration of The Pirate Bay is a much smaller and tightly run ship, stripping out many of the former administrators and moderators, who are now revolting against the decision to let the site run without support.

One of The Pirate Bay's former administrators, identified as WTC-SWE, told TorrentFreak that a decision maker at the site thinks it "can be run without any staff at all and at the same time keeping up with fakes, internal issues etc."

He said many of the people who dedicated themselves to The Pirate Bay are now preparing to start their own site -- and are warning users of the re-launched Pirate Bay to watch out for potential malware threats, since the site won't be as closely monitored by a dedicated staff.

The Pirate Bay had been hit with raids in the past, with the website's administrators staging a high-tech mutiny to bring the site back to its operational capacity in just a number of days.

The raid last year marked the first time in a while the site had been knocked offline instead of being blocked by Internet service providers in various countries.

Swedish police said they raided The Pirate Bay's servers after being prompted by a complaint by the Rights Alliance, a group targeting cyber crime.

Founded in 2003 by a group of Swedish hacktivists seeking to build a library of files to share, the site had humble beginnings on a server based in Mexico and moving a few months later to a laptop in Sweden.

At is peak, an estimated 50 million people used The Pirate Bay each day to download music and movies.

The site's core group, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundstrom were tried and convicted on copyright infringement charges in Sweden and have since distanced themselves from the site.

Each was sentenced to one year in jail and ordered to pay millions of dollars of damages, which was to be dispersed to various entertainment companies. The group appealed and had their sentences shortened.

Lundstrom served his sentence. Warg was arrested in Cambodia in 2012. Authorities caught up with Sunde, who was living openly in Sweden, in June of this year. Neij was arrested last year while trying to enter Thailand, marking four years since his conviction.

The site's leadership has switched to a nonprofit organization registered in the Seychelles, according to its "about" page last year. With the relaunched site, the about page was not operational and did not provide any updated information.