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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. Arms Race by JeffreyBPetersen · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's only a matter of time until someone builds an anonymization layer for this that sees mass adoption.

  2. Malware by Xicor · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I checked out the new torrent time thing. It is definitely malware. It sets up a windows service and turns itself on. While it is running, your computer won't sleep because it sets a 30 second wake timer.