The Pirate Bay is slowly returning to its former glory: after more than three years, the deviant torrent site has regained a spot among the 100 most-visited sites on the Internet. Internet traffic ranking service Alexa lists the site among the 100 most-visited domains in the world once again, in 99th place. It is believed that the uptick in traffic only occurred due to the demise of other torrent sites, however.



Last summer both KickassTorrents and Torrentz left the scene, and ExtraTorrent followed a few weeks ago. Many of these users have flocked to The Pirate Bay, which is the prime source for user uploaded torrents. That the Pirate Bay is still around is somewhat of an achievement in itself. Over the years there have been numerous attempts to shut the site down. It started in 2006, when Swedish authorities raided the site following pressure from the United States, only for the site to come back stronger. The criminal convictions of the site’s founders didn’t kill the site either, nor did any of the subsequent attempts to take it offline.

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Source: [H]ardOCP – Pirate Bay Re-Enters List of 100 Most Popular Sites on the Internet