World’s most popular torrent site NOT WORKING again for fans

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THE Pirate Bay has been down for a number of users for almost a day, with the world’s most popular torrent website hard to reach for users.

The Pirate Bay has been hard to reach for the past day, with users of the torrent download site reporting issues accessing it.

Pirate Bay users have been greeted with a Cloudflare error message when they try to access the torrent portal, with an error 502 ‘bad gateway’ appearing.

Today’s Pirate Bay outage, reported by TorrentFreak, comes after the torrent site has been hit by similar server issues in the past few months.

Last November The Pirate Bay went down twice, with users being greeted with the same server error message on both occasions.

Around the same time popular torrent website 1337x also suffered server issues, with operators saying it was the target of a cyber attack.

The Pirate Bay is not the only popular torrent site that is currently being hit by server issues.

One popular ExtraTorrent copy has also been suffering downtime for more than a week, with no official word on the status and when it’s coming back online.

As The Pirate Bay was hit by server issues, fans have taken to Twitter to report issues with the torrent site.

One user tweeted: “The Pirate Bay is down”.

While another posted: “The Pirate Bay is down so is my mood”.

And one added: “The Pirate Bay is down. I'm stressed.”

The Pirate Bay outage comes after a number of popular torrent websites such as Kickass Torrents and Torrentz.eu have all shut down.

These sites have closed up shop after the penalties for online piracy have become more severe and ahead of Google launching its Chrome ad blocker.

The upcoming ad blocker is expected to have a big effect on torrent sites and the revenue they bring in.

Adverts that will be affected are those which don’t fall within the “better ads standards” including pop-up ads.

The owner of one torrent site, who did not want to be named, said the Google Chrome ad blocker “will kill torrent sites”.

Torrent sites will soon learn how big of an impact the Google Chrome ad blocker will have on their revenue, as it launches on February 15 2018.

While the penalties for online piracy have also become more severe this year thanks to the Digital Economy Act becoming law.

The new law raised the maximum possible sentence for online copyright infringement offences from two to 10 years.

The maximum sentence will only apply to people who commit serious copyright crimes, such as distributing content.