Yes, The Pirate Bay is down at the moment. No, there’s no reason to panic.
Every time The Pirate Bay suffers a few minutes for downtime, thousands of people start to worry that something awful has happened to their beloved site. Luckily, this is usually not the case.
When the site’s not responding someone probably tripped over a cable, they’re working on software upgrades, replacing hardware or facing another technical difficulty.
And indeed, the current downtime also has a technical nature.
The Pirate Bay team told TorrentFreak that they’re working on a problem that arose after a software upgrade.
Everything should be back to normal soon.
Update: The site’s back after a few hours of downtime.
Pirate Bay Downtime, March 2012
