The Pirate Bay To Create YouTube Competitor

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.

Comments

Already a site that does this...

[satchmodian]

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

Re:Already a site that does this...

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Update to sneak preview

[glassesmonkey]

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)

Re:Lawsuit

[I confirm I'm not a]

> 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.