The Pirate Bay is pitted to make its glorious return next month. This was the conjecture concluded after a countdown timer was gaudily plastered on the fallen website, along with a waving flag. If this should come about, it would not be difficult for the torrent king to boot out the new top site Google turns up with after the words "The Pirate Bay" are entered in the search box. 

Currently, The Old Pirate Bay is the number one search result when torrent finders rummage around for The Pirate Bay. This is the alternative fellow torrent giant Isohunt built after the site's nuclear-proof data center was raided and servers were cut off by Swedish police, knocking it offline for an indefinite period. 

Mirror copies of The Pirate Bay were also put up. Thanks to Isohunt's Open Bay, which allowed everyone (yes, every single person regardless of the level of Internet knowledge), to make their own version. This generated about 400 clones. 

"Our current goal is not only make it open source, but eventually provide fully decentralized torrent database for the community," Isohunt pledged on the parallel site. "We, the team that brought you Isohunt.to and oldpiratebay.org, are bringing you the next step in the torrent evolution. Open Pirate Bay source code. The era of individual torrent sites is over." 

In the midst of Isohunt's efforts in extending its hands to the torrent royalty, The Pirate Bay has been showing signs of life all through the works of the people behind it. There were reports that a download link for "The Interview" was once displayed on the site. From the time when it lost touch with the online world, Dec. 9 to be exact, many believed that The Pirate Bay will find ways to raise itself from the grave. With the countdown timer as the biggest clue, The Pirate Bay could be back online by Feb. 1.