The verdict did not shut down TPB. The site remained online, hosted by servers in multiple countries, laughing at the courts.
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Within a week, TPB was resurrected, first in Iceland, then in Greenland, then on a submarine (a joke that briefly went viral), and finally on a decentralized network of servers. Clone sites, proxies, and mirrors exploded across the web. Today, hundreds of Pirate Bay proxies exist—from thepiratebay.org to piratebay.live , pirateproxy.bz , and even onion links on the Tor network. The verdict did not shut down TPB