The Pirate Bay — an infamous Torrent website predominantly used to share copyrighted material free of charge — could be relaunched on 1st February, the date the website has long been expected to return.





The website went dark from the Internet following a raid in Sweden last month. After a complaint was filed by a group called the Rights Alliance, Swedish Police officers raided The Pirate Bay's server room in Stockholm and seized several servers and other equipment.





Last month's raid comes almost a month after the arrest of Fredrik Neij, the third and final founder of The Pirate Bay, at the border between Laos and Thailand on November 3. He was convicted by Swedish courts for sharing copyrighted material more than five years ago.

The Pirate Bay homepage is displaying a logo of Phoenix once again with a timer counting down to 1 February. The search box and categories are back under the flag, but are not active yet. At the bottom of the page, a pirate ship sails toward an island, which suggests that the website will soon rise from its ashes.





Fredrik Neij at the last minute. The Phoenix bird logo was last used by The Pirate Bay (TPB) website in 2006 when the website was raided and taken down by the police. However, TPB reappeared online just after three days — Thanks to a backup made byat the last minute.





The Pirate Bay has previously been shut down number of times and had its domain seized, prompting the BitTorrent site to change its top level domain many times. Back in September, The Pirate Bay claimed that it ran the notorious website on 21 "raid-proof" virtual machines , which means if one location is raided by the police, the site would hardly took few hours to get back in action.





The Pirate Bay is one of the most-visited websites of the Internet, and the entertainment industries, including film, music and software industries, blame the website for losses running into billions of pounds.





Though, 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 (i.e. ThePirateBay.se) remained inaccessible.





Since December last year, the domain has been updated several times. If up on 1st February, The Pirate Bay will provide a magnet link for the controversial film The Interview by Sony Pictures . As, for few days the waving pirate flag of the website was overlaid with an image of Kim Jong Un in a cartoon format.





The countdown timer that is still running indicates that The Pirate Bay will relaunch in full fame within a week, although officially there is no such announcement has been made by the collectives who apparently run The Pirate Bay.





If The Pirate Bay comes back, it will definitely come with a Bang. Be ready as the clock is running Tick-Tock-Tick-Tock…...