The Pirate Bay is back for real — independent.co.uk

Sporting a new logo - a phoenix rising from the ashes - thepiratebay.se was resurrected this weekend following its longest ever shutdown. The site's servers have been raided before, most notably in 2006 and 2010, but was brought back online just days later. Whilst it was gone, users turned to a functioning alternative Pirate Bay - a mirror hosted in Costa Rica - and torrent website Isohunt, which had copied the Pirate Bay's archives.

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