I remember a few years ago when Pirate bay was in the headlines of many news sites..they shut down their own servers because they were going over their bandwidthly limit having to pay extra for going over the limit..so they purposely shut down the site temp.

this is why am asking OP for a link which he is not providing which leads me to believe its just speculation on his part.

I personally dont care..but would be nice if posters post a link backing up their posts when it relates to news ..too many times i find BSers here or just kids looking for attention. Not that is what im claiming the OP is doing..there is a good chance the site has been shut down..but then again..there is a good chance the site was purposely shut off temp by Pirate bay themselves for server related issues..as its happened before.