But your server was distributing the illegal thing. It doesn’t matter, that it might not be there anymore, here in Germany there is a decent chance of getting a

But your server was distributing the illegal thing. It doesn’t matter, that it might not be there anymore, here in Germany there is a decent chance of getting a police visit and possibly getting your hardware impounded. This is also the case for tor exit nodes, which is why those here are all hosted by organizations with lawyers. As you distribute the content here, unlike with tor, you would essentially act as a user generated content provider and would have to take steps to prevent the abuse from occurring again… probably after an involved court case. This is not like "every server" because not every server distributes what anyone publishes to it. Though a lot of that might not be an issue in jurisdictions with saner laws, I don’t know specifics.