In a move that will almost certainly infuriate copyright authorities and the governments that support them, the world’s most popular Bittorrent sharing website The Pirate Bay has ditched its servers and moved to the cloud, ensuring that it can remain operational at all times.

Making an announcement on its official blog, The Pirate Bay details how it dropped static trackers, then ditching torrent files back in January — when it switched to Magnet links. Now, the website has moved its data into the ever expanding network of cloud hosting services, allowing it to switch between various site deployments, should authorities try to take it down or malicious attackers attempt to bring it to its knees.

The Pirate Bay’s “Winston Brahma” explains the new setup:

If there is data, there is The Pirate Bay. Our data flows around in thousands of clouds, in deeply encrypted forms, ready to be used when necessary. Earth bound nodes that transform the data are as deeply encrypted and reboot into a deadlock if not used for 8 hours. All attempts to attack The Pirate Bay from now on is an attack on everything and nothing. 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.

It’s almost like something out of a film, as the website moves between deployments and stays one step ahead of the people chasing it.

Today’s announcement is an evolution of The Pirate Bay’s previous attempts to remain decentralised, by allowing users to download a copy of the website’s database to deploy their own version of the website should an official server be pulled offline.

With a number of UK and Finnish Internet providers (and ISPs in other countries) restricting access to the website, The Pirate Bay has been forced to offer mirrors to circumvent government blockages. Moving to the cloud makes it harder for providers to block based on IP addresses, allowing users to continue sharing files.

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