After Swedish police raided The Pirate Bay data centers and knocked the torrent hub off the Web last Dec. 9,  it is finally back on its feet following measured attempts and hints of its big comeback.

At the onset of the takedown, the people behind the workings of the site "couldn't care less" about the déjà vu foray. Then more weeks went by and it looked like the site was nowhere near a resurrection. In an effort to preserve its database, torrent giant isoHunt put up The Open Bay, which allowed Internet users to develop their own personal The Pirate Bay.  Meanwhile, users who entered the domain of the download site fresh from its razing were welcomed by error messages.

But things changed in January. Users started to see a waving pirate flag plastered onto the home page. Along with it was a BitTorrent Sync key, which provided access to an editable record of The Pirate Bay torrent files. In the wake of the Sony hack, the administrators of the then-fallen site put a cartoon of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un and made a download link to the controversial movie, "The Interview."

Days passed and the website donned a huge countdown timer that was set on Feb. 1. The site then slowly slipped back to its classic layout, complete with its usual text, links and search boxes. Its rebirth was further illuminated when the site put an image of a phoenix as the page's showpiece, marking its rise from the ashes. 

The Pirate Bay proves itself to be an incessant pain in the neck for police, who took a shot at the piracy king and failed back in the year 2006. The Pirate Bay, which was inaccessible for about two months, seems to have successfully kept most of its content, allowing another round of illegal downloads now that it has gone out to sea. Its rich database appears to be unharmed as the download site proved its strength comparable to that of a mighty phoenix.