There were false flags being flown after a very real law enforcement action was executed in The Pirate Bay server room carved out of the heart of a mountain.

Two months after the server room raid, The Pirate Bay is back online.

Some thought The Pirate Bay site was scuttled by the law once and for all when Swedish authorities on Dec. 9 raided the data center that had been quartering the torrent indexing service.

Shortly after, false flag events began to emerge and friendly rival isoHunt even claimed to have made room on its servers to house the zombiefied corpse of The Pirate Bay.

With reports of server instability, it isn't a flawless return to form. It isn't even the same form, as The Pirate Bay says it has continued to evolve and a lot has changed this time around.

"So, first we ditched the trackers -- we even got rid of the torrents," stated The Pirate Bay in a light-hearted post on its blog. "Then we left the servers to enter the clouds. Now, we're about to take the biggest step in our history."

In what authorities can only hope is a joke, The Pirate Bay says it is preparing to ascend beyond the physical realm and manifest into what it is calling The Virtual Bay. Through alleged work with Russian, Israeli and Japanese neuroscientists, The Pirate Bay claims it is working on a device that "will embrace your entire mind."

"No, this is no longer science fiction," said The Pirate Bay. "With the next version of this humble venture, you'll be able to see, hear and feel everything that is a part of The Pirate Bay. How you use it is up to you."

Of the real changes that The Pirate Bay has undergone, the removal of the moderation panel may be the most significant. The absence of the moderation panels makes it harder for authorities to prosecute specific people, but it also leaves the site open to being populated by fake torrents and spam.

While The Pirate Bay appears to be returning to form, it doesn't appear the heat on the torrent indexing site will ever cool. In a more serious section of the revived site, The Pirate Bay sticks to its official line in stating that it doesn't hold on its servers any data that is illegal and infringes on copyrights.

"No torrent files are saved at the server -- that means no copyrighted and/or illegal material are stored by us," stated The Pirate Bay. "It is therefore not possible to hold the people behind The Pirate Bay responsible for the material that is being spread using the site."

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