October 19, 2012: The Pirate Bay has moved its servers to the cloud to hinder authorities’ attempts to take it offline. The website will now operate from cloud-hosting providers around the world. It says the move will save money and make it harder for law-enforcement agencies to shut it down.
In 2006, police in Sweden raided The Pirate Bay, shutting down its servers. The Pirate Bay says its new cloud-based servers, do not have to be hosted with the same provider, or even on the same continent – making it impervious to attempts to close it down. The Pirate Bay said: “The site that you’re at will still be here, for as long as we want it to. Only in a higher form of being. A reality to us. A ghost to those who wish to harm us.”
Talking to the TorrentFreak website they said: “Moving to the cloud lets us move from country to country, crossing borders seamlessly without downtime. The hosting providers have no idea that they’re hosting The Pirate Bay, and even in the event they found out it would be impossible for them to gather data on the users.”
http://advanced-television.com/2012/10/18/pirate-bay-moves-to-the-cloud/