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human
ELI5: The Pirate Bay, and How It's Currently Operating.

So I was reading the Pirate Bay Wikipedia article and I am pretty sure I am missing a HUGE bit of information, from the article or somewhere.  It makes it sound like the creators of The Pirate Bay were fined, and the Pirate Bay was shutdown?  But um..it's still up and running? I have read the entire article, or so I thought, and it repeatedly discusses how action was taken.  It does show that they changed internet providers...but that seems ridiculous the Pirate Bay will be charged millions in court and then just change providers and keep doing what they were just found guilty of doing... 

The Pirate Bay: "OH LOL LET'S JUST USE QWEST INSTEAD OF VERIZON"

Courts: "DAMN IT THEY BOUGHT A NEW INTERNET PLAN! CURSES WE CAN'T GET THEM!"

Anyways if it already isn't entirely obvious, I am stupid and ignorant on this topic...so forgive me and explain this like I am 5, thank you!
gpt
Since no one has yet explained this like you're five, let me give it a twirl.

They didn't change their internet providers, they physically moved the servers their site is hosted on.  They have servers in a missile bunker in Russia, they have servers in Argentina, and they have servers in several other countries that are NOT Sweden.

So, imagine you're convicted of manufacturing cocaine here in the US, but your actual cocaine processing plant is in Paraguay, and another one in Bosnia, and another one in Pakistan.  They can convict you of the crime, but they can't really sieze your stash, because it's not in the US, and it's not in US-friendly countries.  Now imagine they convicted you in absentia, while you were in another non US-friendly country, and they're really kind of screwed.  Now imagine that a year before they even tried you, you sold your cocaine plants to another person, but wouldn't tell them who - but you could PROVE that you didn't own the plants.  That's about the legal footing that Sweden has on the Pirate Bay at the moment.