

Instead, they moved to the use of virtual machines which are hosted through different providers. The Pirate Bay has made so many changes to try to preserve their operation that they stopped using most of their hardware. The Pirate Bay doesn’t currently own hardware The move was intended to cut down on costs, make the site portable, improve the uptime and make it more difficult for the site to be disabled. They made a big change to their infrastructure by moving the entire system to the cloud. In 2016, The Pirate Bay made a bold move. The Pirate Bay took their server to the cloud The government concluded for Australia, that the sites, in accordance with their laws committed copyright infringement. It wasn’t until December of 2016 that they made the final decision to move ahead with the country-wide block of The Pirate Bay along with other torrent sites including isoHunt as well as SolarMove. In September of 20014, the government of Australia began discussions about whether or not they should block torrent sites, The Pirate Bay being among them.

Australia followed Argentina in discussions to block The Pirate Bay three months later This was a serious interruption of the service for Argentinians who frequently uploaded and downloaded content.

THE PIRATES BAY TRIAL
Prior to the decision, a trial was by the Argentinian Chamber of Phonograms Productors and the order, to block certain IP blocks within the entire country. On June 30 of 2014, The National Communications Commision in Argentina made the decision to block all of the domains of the Pirate Bay. The NCC in Argentina ordered a nationwide block of the Pirate Bay The Pirate Bay stayed afloat for a long time 1.
