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?
As of the last 20 years I’ve had great success in searching for piracy sources in Spanish. Argentina and Chile have great metal and EDM fandoms and for the longest time you could find entire albums just uploaded to S. American music blogs and wikis searchable on google.
Now when I’m looking for stuff on Soulseek my most constant results are coming from South American IP addresses. But I’m routing my own VPN through there so maybe that’s not hard evidence of anything. I just know that for a lot of places they aren’t in the 15 Eyes intel sharing agreements and don’t seem particularly interested in prosecuting online copyright violations. At least as of now, these things can change.
Also Iceland has a prominent data liberty movement and tends not to prosecute, but I don’t know if it’s the same for if somebody tried to host from there. I think about the old TPB guys back when they were scrambling to find places they could possibly operate out of and Iceland wasn’t really on the table for them, even back when it was starting to have hopes at a tech sector market boom. But I really don’t know too much about their situation. This is conjecture.