Mark your calendars: the pirate bay might make a huge (and much needed) comeback on 1st Feb. As many of you might know already that The Pirate Bay is the most popular bit torrent platform on the internet today and I am sure most of you have already availed the benefit of its services. The site was taken down in early December by the Swedish Police following strict action taken on piracy issues that the site reportedly supported. Since then, the team has not resumed any activity on the site. But off late, there have been indications which suggest that the site is planning on making a huge comeback by 1st February this year.

This is not the first time that the site has been taken down on account of piracy. It has happened before and on every occasion, The Pirate Bay has always found a way to come back. Back in 2012, the site has revealed that the entire operations of the platform had been moved to the cloud to “make the service virtually impervious to police raids,” and this created the possibility of putting up a different version of the website soon. One or two raids by the police department would not be able to taken down the entire global network of Pirate Bay as the international cloud infrastructure would make it quite a challenge for the authorities to track and shut down the operations completely.

It’s been a few weeks since the site has put up a digital timer that counts down to 1st February. We can only assume it to indicate the resurrection of the popular P2P service. Check out the current status of the site below. There have been changes to the graphics but the time has been a constant element on the page.

Source: http://thepiratebay.se/

The site has now put up an image of the phoenix which is symbolic of resurrection. According to The Guardian, this image has been used in the past (most notably in 2006) before the re-launch of the site. Now that the phoenix has reappeared after the site has been taken down, the chances of a revival are pretty high. The site would never try to pull off a gimmick like this because the fan base comprises millions of users who seek out the services of the Pirate Bay to get hands on their favourite “hard-to-get” media.