The Pirate Bay has been hard to reach for nearly 48 hours now.
For most people, the site currently displays a CloudFlare error message across the entire site, with the CDN provider mentioning that a “gateway time-out” is causing the issue.
This error suggests that there’s a problem on TPB’s end which is preventing the CDN provider from connecting to the site’s server.
No further details are available to us at the time of writing. Judging from past experience, however, it’s likely a technical issue that has to be addressed. There are no known issues with Cloudflare or the domain name itself.
While the notorious torrent site remains inaccessible through the regular route, many proxy sites are still online. TPB is also still available via its new .onion address on the Tor network, accessible using the popular Tor Browser, for example.
The Tor domain and the proxies still feature fresh content. This means that user uploads and the upload bots are still operational as well.
The official Pirate Bay forum has a status page in the forums where people can check to see if an outage is affecting everyone or not. This also shows that the Tor version of the site is working fine, although it doesn’t show any new torrents.
TorrentFreak hasn’t heard anything from the TPB team but these types of outages are not unusual. The Pirate Bay has suffered plenty of downtime in the past and the popular torrent site usually returns after a few hours, or days.
While several people are expressing their concerns on social media, there is no sign that the current issues are related to any type of enforcement action.
