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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:Well then... by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 2

      I work in Seattle, and live in a semi-rural area 40 miles away. I regularly stream Netflix, Hulu, and HBO Go at home over my Comcast internet connection without issue.

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    3. Re: Well then... by Fwipp · · Score: 2

      GP asked "who wants to stream media?" There are plenty of people for whom streaming is a very good option.

      I'm not saying "Fuck you; you dialup clods" - just explaining why streaming works for me.

    4. Re:Well then... by stoolpigeon · · Score: 2

      Most of the rest of the developed world and a decent chunk of the less developed world have better, cheaper broadband than the US. So actually a lot of people do have great internet. You just happen to live in a country that is unwilling to catch up to the rest of the world in that regard.

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    5. Re: Well then... by mh1997 · · Score: 4, Informative

      I'm not saying "Fuck you; you dialup clods" - just explaining why streaming works for me.

      I do: fuck you, you dialup clods. This is the 21st Century: you have no right to complain and want to hold the rest of us back because you're a rural bunch of no-monied crap-o-rama shitfolks. We want to move forwards: progress for the most people and for the worthy ones. You don't like it? Choke on a shovel and die in a manure fire.

      Fuck you, you city dwelling bitch. I live in a very rural area of Indiana and have gigabit fiber.

  2. Great way to get sued! by BenJeremy · · Score: 2

    Now outfits like Rightscorp have a larger number of targets of people dumb enough to torrent without a proxy or VPN to sue.

    1. Re:Great way to get sued! by BenJeremy · · Score: 2

      Well, it's possible, in certain countries, you might get banned or worse...

      Of course, nobody has gotten sued for visiting The Pirate Bay, but if you can stream through your browser, you can bet your IP will be hanging out in the breeze to be picked up by outfits like Rightscorp to log and send through their subpoena mills.

      While I'm bitching here on Slashdot... can anybody give me a reasonable explanation why Linux torrent clients had to lose their ability to use proxies? Yeah, I understand the libraries they used removed the functionality - WTF did the library maintainers remove the capability? I also realize the primary reason for proxies, but there are more than a few legitimate reasons for proxies, too.

  3. Re:I stole this comment by JeffreyBPetersen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thank you for sharing.

  4. 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.

  5. Re:Too Bad by Holi · · Score: 2

    There is nothing worthwhile except South Park? You have interesting tastes my friend.

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    Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.
  6. Re:Let vs Lets by fnj · · Score: 5, Informative

    Pirate Bay Now Let[sic] you stream...[deranged insults over perfectly good English]

    "Organization do" (singular) is proper British usage and is dominant in most English speaking locales. "Organization does" (singular) is Americanized pidgin. Get some elementary knowledge, stop the uninformed insults, and lose the provincial attitude. It's a big world and it does not rotate around the United States. Less and less every year does it do so.

  7. 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.

  8. Re:Let vs Lets by Zontar+The+Mindless · · Score: 2

    In the UK and many other English-speaking countries, organisations are considered plural and take plural verbs.

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