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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. Helpin out by AakashPatel · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Eh...the helpin out email address on their page gives me a relay access denied bounce back...great way to help out lol

    1. Re:Helpin out by bertoelcon · · Score: 3, Interesting

      It says "(Don't expect anything to work at all)", maybe that applies to the email server too?

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  2. Re:They just don't get it, do they? by jork · · Score: 3, Interesting

    yes, but a large percentage of people who view videos in Youtube have no interest in the social media elements.

  3. Re:So now they're going to start hosting . . . by jack2000 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They can still have an eula that basically declares whatever you do is your own fault...

  4. iphone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If this works on the iPhone, it's going to force youtube to adopt HTML5.

  5. Ahma's gr88-st opportunity by scorilo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The one smart PR move that renegade countries like Iran, Zimbabwe or North Korea don't ever make is hosting other renegades, from the other side of the pond (like tpb or tvb). They'd score a major coup by showing that there are excesses and abuses perpetrated by their critics as well, and rather than having to perform the filtering and censorship themselves, they'd be forcing the West to do it for them, allowing themselves to be painted as the good guys.

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    1. Re:Ahma's gr88-st opportunity by Darkness404 · · Score: 2, Interesting

      ....But they won't do it. In case you hadn't seen it a few days ago TPB changed their logo to be "The Iran Bay" with links to materials helping protesters get their message out. The idea was even used in an April Fools gag a while back on their site about moving to North Korea.

      About all that will go to these countries would be shady porn sites or for-profit warez groups. The rest will simply refuse because they care more about these issues than being "legal".

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  6. Re:So now they're going to start hosting . . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The "linking defense will not work" in my original message wasn't limited to a particular country (or law, even). It is the entire argument that somehow Google are the Pirate Bay are the same things in that they only provide links. That they never did anything wrong or broken the law since they are not the ones uploading the actual files. That is that the users are the ones responsible, not TPB/TVB. Now that they will be hosting this, the pro-TPB crowd will kill their own defenses in IP debates, be it ethical or ethical debates.

  7. Re:They just don't get it, do they? by selven · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Wait, youtube has social features?