Infamous torrent site The Pirate Bay was down for 24 hours and the blame had been passed around, even to the point where rapper Kanye West was accused of causing the problem. The system has since been resolved, and according to a report from Torrent Freak, the issue was caused by technical issues. 

It is very rare for a torrent site as large as The Pirate Bay to go offline for more than a few hours and when they do, it is very often due to a legal issue that may cause the site to relocate its domain. The worst-case scenario occured last year when the site's main servers were raided by the police, forcing The Pirate Bay to go down for some time.

However, that is not the case with what happened this past week. According to the report, minor technical issues kept the site from functional properly, prompting The Pirate Bay to greet its visitors with an Error 502 message. Even when the site was functional at times, simply refreshing or searching would lead to a "site is under maintenance" message.

It is also noted that the problem was not for a specific domain but it occured across the board. The .se, .onion and other main domains used by The Pirate Bay were all offline for more than a day. These issues have since been resolved and the torrent site is now available.

The Pirate Bay has also reportedly gained a few upgrades, although a specific list of what the new features and improvements are has not been released, hinting that these upgrades may be in regards to the site's stability and internal structure.

The Pirate Bay has also seen an influx in visitors. In a separate report from Torrent Freak, many Netflix users around the world have turned to the torrent site in order to pirate the latest season of "House of Cards," given that Netflix could not make season 4 available to several countries due to licensing obstacles.