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?
I would say Colombia, and probably most of Latin America. You can safely pirate multimedia content, or even physical counterfeit stuff.
I used to spend a lot of time in a huge comercial neighborhood in Bogotá where you can buy jailbroken consoles, pirated movies/games/anything, counterfeit anything, and there were some cops presence, but they literally couldn’t care less, and they’ll buy stuff as well. Maybe once a year there were raids, but it was against tax-evasion.
If this is the case in the capital, in the rest of the country the situation is even more careless.