Pirate Bay Back

The Pirate Bay re-emerged following a countdown to much trumpeted 1st Feb relaunch and the site appears to be similar to the way it was before Swedish authorities took the service offline during a server raid on 9th December last year, albeit currently a phoenix currently sits on the home page where the site's pirate ship logo would normally be seen. The platform seems to have collapsed several times, very possibly due to high demand for its database of links to unlicensed music, movies and TV shows. The returning site does not yet serve ads.

http://www.extremetech.com/internet/198644-the-pirate-bay-is-back-and-has-barely-lost-a-step

Power to re-launch Phoenix

Vince Power has said that he is planning on resurrecting the Phoenix Festival in 2012, which happens to be the Glastonbury Festival’s next year off. Power created the Phoenix Festival with Mean Fiddler in 1993. It ran for five years, but then was cancelled after disappointing ticket sales in 1998. No location has been announced. Power has recently floated his new live music company Music Festivals plc whose events include the recently concluded Hop Farm Festival last weekend featuring Prince and the newly launched Feis which again relaunched the Fleadh in London’s Finsbury Park. In separate news, organisers of a new festival in Devon - the Devonrox Festival - have announced they are cancelling their event due to poor ticket sales.