The Pirate Bay's resilience has again been tested. Last week, the torrent site has gone offline, this time with an "Error 526" issue. 

With the resurgence of the site, torrent fans were greeted with intermittent issues and glitches, ranging from a flood of fake torrents and spam that affect the site's traffic; to moderators and administrators turning off the "new accounts" function and sealing the torrent site off to new users. 

The latest in TPB's problems is in terms of security. Last week, torrent searchers have been intermittently unable to access the website owing to an SSL certificate error. This means that the site doesn't have a properly configured security certificate. Site visitors are greeted by an "Error 526" message, a new one to the site's previous "Error 500" and "Error 502" messages. 

It seems that the new glitch arose from TPB's new third-party distribution partner, CloudFlare. Cloudflare has recently been in the news as rumors surfaced online that the company is helping numerous agencies, particularly the FBI, to log IP addresses and electronically tag visitors.  

The Pirate Bay has just been re-launched early this year, coming from an on-and-off hiatus and a raid on its server offices by authorities. 

However, not all entities seem to be against The Pirate Bay. In an astounding move last March, Swedish ISP Bredbandsbolaget categorically refused to block TPB, saying that blocking the site would be tantamount to meddling. 

Commercial Director Mats Lundquist said, "It is an important principle that Internet providers of Internet infrastructure shall not be held responsible for the content that is transported over the Internet. In the same way that the Post should not meddle in what people write in the letter or where people send letters." 

Although not as popular as before, and with issues still plaguing the site, The Pirate Bay still remains as one of the most known torrent sites for file seekers.