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The Pirate Bay Now Let You Stream Movies and TV, Not Just Download

Posted by timothy on from the trust-pirates-to-innovate dept.

An anonymous reader writes: On Tuesday, a new simple solution for streaming torrents directly in your browser showed up on the Web. By Friday, infamous torrent site The Pirate Bay had already adopted it. The Pirate Bay now features "Stream It!" links next to all its video torrents. As a result, you can play movies, TV shows, and any other video content directly in the same window you use to browse the torrent site.

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  1. Well then... by dejitaru · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Pirate bay just raised the bar... I can't wait to see the media companies and governments reaction. Guess I should grab some popcorn, this is going to be entertaining... in both ways.

    1. Re:Well then... by Fwipp · · Score: 5, Insightful

      A lot of people do have good internet, and streaming is all about removing that barrier between "Hey, let's watch X" and actually watching it.

      If you need to download it first, you're waiting for a half hour or more to get a good copy. Streaming, it might be rabbit-ear quality, but at least you get start to watching it immediately.

      (Time & quality figures are obviously subject to change based on the streaming/download service and your bandwidth).

  2. Re:Malware by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Are you fond of your computer entering sleep mode while you watch videos? no? That is why it's there. Every media player has the same feature.