The Pirate Bay has grown tired of government agents raiding its data treasure trove and is smuggling away all its booty to the cloud. As TorrentFreak reports, the Pirate Bay is moving its entire operation to multiple cloud hosting providers to spread out its resources and thus make it more difficult for individual governments to shut down.

“Moving to the cloud lets TPB move from country to country, crossing borders seamlessly without downtime,” a Pirate Bay representative told TorrentFreak. ”All the servers don’t even have to be hosted with the same provider, or even on the same continent.”

Having cloud providers in multiple countries also reduces the risk that the site will be shut down should one hosting company cave to government demands and kick the Pirate Bay off its servers.

“If one cloud-provider cuts us off, goes offline or goes bankrupt, we can just buy new virtual servers from the next provider,” the Pirate Bay representative told TorrentFreak. “Then we only have to upload the VM-images and reconfigure the load-balancer to get the site up and running again.”

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