While the Pirate Bay remains offline, other torrent services that went down as an indirect result of the Pirate Bay raid have started to come back online.
The most popular service that was hit in the crossfire was EZTV, and its main domain isn't working at the moment but proxy links, such as eztv-proxy.net, are connecting to the site's backend IPs. EZTV torrents are also being uploaded once again in other places, including Kickass Torrents.
TorrentFreak confirmed with operators of EZTV that servers are coming back online again and that the site is expected to recover fully.
Another BitTorrent site that has since fully recovered is Zoink. It is currently back operating a torrent storage service. Meanwhile, the Superbay forum is still offline, as is Torrage and the Istole tracker is still down.
There were some reports that the Pirate Bay is back up and running, but in reality the links are to proxy sites that are only offering up some cached older search results. Some of them may also be scams and thus better off avoided.
Whether the Pirate Bay can make a full and prompt recovery as it did back in 2006 remains to be seen, but co-founder Peter Sunde thinks it is time for the service to die.
TorrentFreak confirmed with operators of EZTV that servers are coming back online again and that the site is expected to recover fully.
Another BitTorrent site that has since fully recovered is Zoink. It is currently back operating a torrent storage service. Meanwhile, the Superbay forum is still offline, as is Torrage and the Istole tracker is still down.
There were some reports that the Pirate Bay is back up and running, but in reality the links are to proxy sites that are only offering up some cached older search results. Some of them may also be scams and thus better off avoided.
Whether the Pirate Bay can make a full and prompt recovery as it did back in 2006 remains to be seen, but co-founder Peter Sunde thinks it is time for the service to die.
