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The Pirate Bay To Create YouTube Competitor

Posted by kdawson on from the torrential dept.

Jared writes "The Pirate Bay has confirmed that is working on a streaming video site with user-generated content. A spokesman said the site will be modeled after YouTube but there will be 'no censorship': The Pirate Bay 'will not be the moral police' and determine what content stays or goes as is oftentimes the case with YouTube. He added that 'the community will have to do that.'" The site will be at thevideobay.org, but nothing is up there for the public yet.

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  1. Already a site that does this... by satchmodian · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.tv-links.co.uk/ Someone beat them to it.

    1. Re:Already a site that does this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      They don't host the shows. Those are linked to other pages, and some of them are broken due to the videos taken down from the source.

    2. Re:Already a site that does this... by eMbry00s · · Score: 4, Informative

      mod parent up for truth, also to bring more publicity to tv-links.co.uk

  2. Re:Potential Uses by the+unbeliever · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just use a good tracker that hosts the original files from the release group, Sample/ subdirectory included, and download the sample first...

  3. Re:Is this legal? by Timesprout · · Score: 2, Informative

    At first glance it's legal, they have been very careful to say user generated content, so expect to see lots of poor quality video of knobs behaving like only knobs can. Unfortunately all too many people confuse user uploaded third party content with user generated so they can actually have some decent content on the site(thats their no censorship clause kicking in). Thats when the legality starts to crumble.

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  4. Update to sneak preview by glassesmonkey · · Score: 5, Informative

    Oops, it appears the flash player is still live: http://thevideobay.org/player/flvplayer.swf

    You can also download some of the sample uploaded vids, but some are VERY weird.. probably nsfw.. you have been warned!
    http://video01.thevideobay.org/vids/38.flv (replace "38" with any number)

  5. Re:Is this legal? by TheRaven64 · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't know about Flash, but the Java security model does not allow an applet to make socket connections to any IP other than that of the server from which the applet originated. I'd be slightly surprised if Flash were any different, since it's a potentially nasty security hole to allow arbitrary connections. Actually, thinking about it, I wouldn't be surprised if Flash were different...

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  6. Re:Lawsuit by I+confirm+I'm+not+a · · Score: 5, Informative

    > And they thought the last lawsuit and raid were bad... I guess they can show the videos from their torrent site now. lol

    They thought the last lawsuit and raid were bad?

    "Just some stats... ... here are some reasons why TPB is down sometimes - and how long it usually takes to fix:
    Tiamo gets *very* drunk and then something crashes: 4 days
    Anakata gets a really bad cold and noone is around: 7 days
    The US and Swedish gov. forces the police to steal our servers: 3 days .. yawn."

    Wow, they're hiding their ph33r well.

    lol, indeed.

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  7. Re:No censorship? Or no blame for censorship? by rmccann · · Score: 2, Informative

    One of the samples on the google cache seems to be a midget gangbang scene...

  8. limits by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    All content now! No limit! I buy stuff I like, I look at stuff I am only slightly interested in. I am not stealing from anybody cause if I am interested in it and I like it I will buy it. As for kiddie pR0n, I have no desire to look at that crap so what's the problem? If you are worried about your kid seeing it then you need to be more involed in your kids life and know what they are doing.

  9. A quick look in the forums.. by eZtaR · · Score: 2, Informative

    reveal a kinda disturbing google cache of the site :P

  10. Re:Paedophiles by Threni · · Score: 2, Informative

    > Law enforcement agencies love the fact that the Pirate Bay doesn't censor child-porn torrents. You see, when you connect to a
    > torrent, you tell everyone else connected who you are. The only thing law enforcement likes more than self-identifying criminals is
    > self-convicting criminals.

    Two points. 1) If you use TOR then the RIAA have no chance of catching you. 2) They can currently catch as many music/movie pirates as they like - it won't get piratebay (or this planned new video site) shut down as it's legal in Sweden - they can only catch the file sharers. But that won't be true if it's child porn and it's being actually hosted by the pirate bay guys. Then they can shut the site down.

  11. Re:pr0n by sayfawa · · Score: 2, Informative

    Don't forget Youporn

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  12. YouTube Clone immune to copyright lawsuits by cashman73 · · Score: 2, Informative
    I'd love to see the **AA go after GodTube for copyright infringement. Maybe their lawyers will finally be smited! ;-)

    On an unrelated note, you've gotta check out the banana video,. . .

  13. Re:pr0n : A summery by freakxx · · Score: 3, Informative
    Listing by ranking (according to my experience):

    1. http://www.myfreepaysite.com/ [you need to create a free account, that's all. Trust me, this is a great website]

    2. http://www.youporn.com/

    3. http://www.sexuploader.com/

    4. http://www.shufuni.com/

    5. http://www.xtube.com/

    http://www.pornotube.com/ is a shit. Don't use it.

  14. Re:pr0n : A summery by ronocdh · · Score: 2, Informative

    www.empornium.us High quality torrents for the pr0n connoisseur.