Bad news for new users who want to upload new torrents on the Pirate Bay site – new user registration is closed temporarily until further notice. The closure of registration was brought about as a response to a slew of spammers who have been uploading hundreds of malware-linked torrents at once. Registration of new users will be reactivated as soon as the malware threats have been taken care of.
Ironically, the issue happened just when everybody thought that The Pirate Bay was going smoothly, The company had a rough sailing in 2018 but there have been no reported outages the past couple of months. So, TPB is hoping that this year will be a better one for the site.
The only problem that The Pirate Bay currently faces is, as mentioned, the fact that new users are unable to register. This has been going on for more than two weeks now. When trying to register at TPB, new users still see the registration page. However, it persistently shows an error message stating the username and/or email is already in use. It would be worthwhile to note that it is not a coding mistake why the registration page is still active. Closing new registration was requested by TPB crew themselves when they discovered the malware attacks on the torrent site.
While closing new registration may have fixed the issue of malware attacks on TPB, it is, however, a drastic regulation. Even TPB staff themselves are hoping that a more permanent spam control will be implemented to the TPB site. Once this is done, registration will be opened again.
Unfortunately, it is still not clear when the issue will be addressed by TPB. In the meantime, old members can still upload torrents so much so that most regular users won’t even notice that there is an issue. However, if they notice that something is wrong with the site, the reason could perhaps be the fact that there are lesser spam on the site.
