The Swedish police's takedown of the king of online piracy sites, known as The Pirate Bay, was meant to scotch illegal downloads of copyrighted content over the Internet. However, illegal downloading was barely held back, even during the brief moment of the site's seeming vulnerability. Torrent activities soared to its usual towering numbers only days after the now-considered failed effort, which scratched the surface by a mere whisker. 

As per Gizmodo with Variety as the main source, anti-piracy company Excipio detected 101.5 million IP addresses engaged in torrent activities. After the shutdown, the figure nose-dived by six million. But just when everything seems to be falling to its place, Excipio watched the numbers clamber back to its initial count within 48 hours, as if no attack was ever deployed. 

It was eventually discovered that The Pirate Bay rose from the Internet grave with the help of its considered torrent rival and another popular torrent-sharing giant, isoHunt. And it seems that the site has important reasons in doing so. 

"It will be always remembered as the pilgrim of Freedom and possibilities on the Web. It's the symbol for a whole generation of the internet users," isoHunt said in its blog post. "In (TPB's) honor we are making oldpiratebay.org search. We, the Isohunt.to team, copied the base of the PirateBay in order to save it to the generations of users. Nothing will be forgotten." 

Now, the site is currently the only one that allows new files to be added and uploaded. The resurrected Old Pirate Bay features a working search engine, some of its old listings and outfitted magnet links. According to The Age, mirror sites like thepiratebay.cr, thepiratebay.hk and thepiratebay.org.es exist but uploading files remain unfeasible. 

Meanwhile, to even the score, hacktivist group that bear the Anonymous flag leaked official login details of the email accounts of the Swedish government. Furthermore, a Swedish outlet known as The Local reported that Anonymous also hacked into Swedish Internet company Telia, which muddled up its customers' Internet connection.