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The Video Bay, Now In Beta

Posted by timothy on from the morally-neutral dept.

poundhard writes "Some two years ago, it was mentioned on TorrentFreak and Slashdot that The Pirate Bay team were working on a YouTube competitor. At the oral proceedings of the Spectrial, I believe it was Peter Sunde, aka Brokep, who said to the prosecutor that it was one of those side projects that failed. A few days ago though, he appeared over Skype at the Open Video Conference in New York, and apparently said that they were about to launch something new. It has been speculated in Norway that it will be the IPREDator. But I checked out The Video Bay, and hey, it is about to go live! This is what they write: 'To stay in the spirit on which TPB was founded and using the Latest Technology, TVB aims to use the new HTML5 features, more specifically the <video> and <audio> tags with the ogg/theora video and audio formats. This site will be an experimental playground and as such subjected to both live and drunk (en)coding, so please don't bug us too much if the site ain't working properly.'"

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  1. Re:Awesome stuff by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Wikipedia does use Ogg Theora and <video> for videos.

  2. Peter Sunde of TPB meets the Brazilian President by Ezel · · Score: 5, Informative

    Some related news:
    Peter Sunde, one of the convicted(and appealing) men behind The Pirate Bay is right now at 'Fórum Internacional Software Livre' in Brazil where he among other things got to meet the brazilian president Lula. Here is a picture of the meeting.
    Peter Sunde himself talks a bit about it in his blog.

    So what now Joe Biden? Time to invade Brazil for fraternizing with the enemy?

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  3. Re:Awesome stuff by Jello+B. · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've uploaded tons of stuff to YouTube that was Ogg Theora. You're not looking hard enough.

  4. Re:Awesome stuff by Daemonax · · Score: 3, Informative

    I know that you can upload it to youtube and it'll convert it... But to watch it you need flash, or to use a script to download the video files or something other things... I want to avoid using a site that requires you to use non-free software for it to work properly.

  5. Re:Awesome stuff by pejyel · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've uploaded tons of stuff to YouTube that was Ogg Theora. You're not looking hard enough.

    You can upload Ogg Theora videos on Youtube, but they will be automatically transcoded to FLV and viewable only as such.

    The OP obviously looks for a site that allows viewing of ogg theora videos, thus getting rid of Flash lameness.

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