I’m asking this out of curiosity; I don’t need to host anything that can’t already be done in the West
Lots of countries have very relaxed or non-existent enforcement of torrent filesharing. That’s not what I’m asking.
I’m asking about what place one could openly host every known commercial pop song and every Hollywood film without any worry about being shutdown or sued.
For a reference, according to a one-minute check of Wikipedia, the only countries which haven’t ratified the Berne Convention or the TRIPS Agreement in any way are Eritrea, Kosovo, Palau and Palestine. While joining these agreements doesn’t imply they’re enforced, it gives an idea of how widely governments do agree to intellectual property rights.
how much would it cost to launch an independent server into orbit?
A lot of people in this thread are equating consuming pirates material with distribution. This is not the same.
Sony has nothing to gain from going after you Joe Schmoe who plays illegal mp3s or cracked games. The reason they don’t have a lawsuit is not that Colombia doesn’t care, it’s that the company would have nothing to gain from enforcing the law and spending the resource required to bring charges against you, this is true in the US too. You might get a letter and your ISP might throw a fit if you torrent, by no rightsholder is going to spend money in court because you didn’t pay to play.
The moment you start distributing pirated material, the interest of the company changes, now they care about you harming their IP, reducing their profits, etc. Now you are at risk of a lawsuit.
Being in fucking Argentina on whatever won’t make a difference, if Sony wants to drag your ass to court, they will, in whatever country you are.
Romania, because although we have been “forced” by the EU to have copyright laws, the authorities don’t give a fuck. I’ve been pirating without any issue for the last 25 years.
I think Russia, because of the sanctions. What I’ve heard is that they stopped caring about piracy, there’s piracy even on their social media, like VK, out in the open.
If it was relaxed before, now it feels like it’s legalized in there.
Edit: found a source for this
Good example, with the caveat that one would still be subject to the intellectual property rights of Russians, and I’d assume of their allies, right? (I know I used Hollywood in my example, that’s on me)
Thanks for adding the source.
In brazil, where I live, one could buy pirated copies of xbox 360 and ps3 games easily at local street markets during the early 2010s at broad daylight, enforcement of anti piracy on a indivual citizen level that I know of is completely unheard of, there have been cases where corporations without software licenses have been fined
it is completely normal to see computers with the activate windows water mark, I think I have seen more with the water mark than without it
To be honest, of all the countries in Latin America, Brazil is the only one I sometimes find news about the government working with some company to ban piracy sites. But as someone also in Latin America, I have no doubt that you can find pirated media in the street as easy as you can buy bread.
Other Brazilian here: Although they don’t care much about piracy at individual level, there were local servers seized and from time to time they take down some locally hosted sites, so although it’s safe for you to download and even p2p share stuff, you can get unlucky hosting - if it’s near elections and some politician needs to pretend he is having the police working.
R.I.P. Manicômio Share
at one point there was talk of moving the pirate bay to The Principality of Sealand
