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What saved PB was that they put their servers in bank vault where it was illegal for any swiss government to touch. The government had no ability to shut the server down and america didn’t like that.
Isn’t that the job of the government. To protect industry -> jobs -> economy.
They sent senators to Switzerland to force the government to stop pirate bay.
https://torrentfreak.com/how-the-us-pushed-sweden-to-take-down-the-pirate-bay-171212/
What saved PB was that they put their servers in bank vault where it was illegal for any swiss government to touch. The government had no ability to shut the server down and america didn’t like that.
Awesome podcast on pirate bay:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5VQv4PNTljCXUtx4U1yzUZ