Controversial Torrent site Pirate Bay was once again inaccessible, causing various speculations. Despite the site seemingly having no problems as far as its domain name and nameservers were concerned, the site accessed by many torrent users had redirected most visitors to a CloudFlare error page.

Two weeks ago, Pirate Bay surprisingly resurrected and came back online. This came after the site was brought down back in December, 2014 by Swedish police who were aggressively trying to crack down on illegal internet torrent sites. Five people were reportedly arrested at that time and the site was inaccessible until the past two weeks.

Initial rumors had it that Pirate Bay could have had internal hardware issues on the part of the host (i.e. router problems or hardware). Though these conditions are nothing new for users who have been constantly downloading from the site, the lengthy state of the downtime that Pirate Bay has at the moment has spurred various beliefs that Pirate Bay has once more been put into check.

And a news report from Newsweek seem to have made more sense in explaining why Pirate Bay is once again offline as the crackdown on illegal torrent downloads continues.

Swedish group, Rights Alliance, has apparently filed a police complaint regarding the matter. They gathered information and filed a complaint concerning various torrent sites. Among the sites that were brought down were Tankafetast Play and The Pirate Hub.

Despite those efforts, clones and copies of Pirate Bay which rose to popularity since the original Pirate Bay site went offline are still up and about.

Sites like Pirate Bay's .onion address still work and is still accessible.

With regards to the Pirate Bay site, after the downtime on Feb. 13, it is reportedly back up, there is no telling whether the site will go off again following the latest raids.