The popular torrent
site The Pirate Bay (TPB)
suffered a widespread outage today as reported by several media
outlets: BBC,
TorrentFreak, PC
Magazine,
ZDNet,
The Huffington Post and many others.
To understand why The Pirate Bay disappeared, we'll look at them
from a routing perspective, noting that without widely accepted
routes to their IP space, they will lack global connectivity. TPB
operates an autonomous
system, AS
51040, which has two Internet service providers,...