, the official domain of TPB returned to life, but without an archive of torrent files and now showing a ticking clock, with the Jolly Roger (skull and crossbones Pirate flag) waving in the background, and an image with apparently random characters with the filename, hinting it might be an encryption key and the website is also showing a cartoon sketch of the dictator of reclusive North Korean regime –

However, a number of clones and rumors of rebirths of the infamous The Pirate Bay (TPB) appeared online, but the official domain of The Pirate Bay ( ThePirateBay.se ) remained inaccessible, until last week.

At the beginning of this month, The Pirate Bay — an infamous Torrent website predominantly used to share copyrighted material such as films, TV shows and music files, free of charge — went dark from the internet during a raid operation carried out by Swedish Police.

Surprisingly, from yesterday a cartoon picture of the supreme leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) named Kim Jong-un appearing on The Pirate Bay website ’s homepage, but WHY?

Last week when the official domain came back online, it showed a pirate boat with multiple reptile heads, likely refer to a Hydra — a Greek mythological figure that grew two heads for every head that was cut off.

This image was included in the source code, with the hint “sneakyhint“, which could be a hint that the website is going to make or allow people to create their own Pirate Bay clone under “The Open Bay” project.

The Open Bay is an initiative launched by Isohunt.to, which allows people to run a “copy” of The Pirate Bay. As earlier the TPB crew said that it would create as many clones as possible, so that The Pirate Bay will never ever went dark.

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“We’ve always lived by Kopimi. We love being cloned. It would be amazing if, like in the classic movie Spartacus, everyone could stand up and say ‘I am The Pirate Bay’,” The Pirate Bay’s Mr 10100100000 told TF earlier.

Since it appeared that the image of Kim Jong un was included in the TPB homepage due to all the controversies about The Interview — the Seth Rogen and James Franco-starring comedy centered around a TV host and his producer assassinating North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, and surrounding claims that North Korea was behind the hacking of Sony Pictures’ corporate network.

At the time, it is unclear that why the “sneakyhint” image of hydra was replaced with Kim Jong Un by Pirate Bay crew. However, a group of Albanian hackers claimed that they managed to hacked the website and added Kim Jong Un image on the TPB’s homepage. But I doubt, because if TPB would have been hacked by hackers then they would have definitely defaced whole website by having access to the site, not just the replacement of a single image.

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Kim Jong Un image on The Pirate Bay homepage started a discussion on the online portal Reddit, where users guessing their best.

Anyone notice kim jong un? it could be hinting that they are moving servers to north Korea possibly?,” one ,” one reddit user said.

But, I felt that if The Pirate Bay team is actually hinting all of us that they are moving their servers to North Korea, then it could create a huge dramatic situation between the US and North Korea after the massive Sony Pictures hack.