IIRC it was sold / transferred to an unknown party and hosted outside of any jurisdictions. The mistake the original owners made was that their names could be traced back from the website.

> hosted outside of any jurisdictions

I'm curious about this - does it mean hosting in a country that "doesn't care", or is there some other option that I'm unaware of?

There are shady hosting companies who don't ask a lot of questions. Some of them even accept BTC. At the end of the day TPB is just ones and zeros in a basement somewhere.

You could host on 2 servers and combine at the client (one server has even bits, the other odd) - that technically wouldn't be hosted anywhere only existing transiently at the client location?

"We towed it outside of the environment!"

There's some info on their 2014 set up -

>At the time of writing the site uses 21 “virtual machines” (VMs) hosted at different providers.

>All virtual machines are hosted with commercial cloud hosting providers, who have no clue that The Pirate Bay is among their customers.

https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-runs-on-21-raid-proo...