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

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

  4. 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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