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Pirate Bay’s YouTube Competitor is “Coming Soon”
TorrentFreak —
... The Video Bay - as the project is named - opened up to the public with a very early test version a few weeks ago. Initially, users were able to browse though the videos but this has been disabled now. What is left is an announcement that the site will be launched somewhere in the future. ...
The Video Bay to be setting sail soon
Gadgetell —
... Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! Ye makers of The Pirate Bay are apparently not planning to go sailing into waters unknown even amidst all the current legal fiascos they are facing. They are launching a new site called The Video Bay to be in competition with YouTube. No one ever said pirates were the meek sort. ...
'The Video Bay' Launches.
I4U News —
... There have been rumors for a while now that TPB was working on a YouTube competitor. It's seemed mostly like vaporware until very recently, when the beta site went online. The Video Bay has a lot of potential to be seriously cool. The Pirate Bay people have a massive, built-in fan base who will flock to this new site and give it a huge, early burst of popularity. Don't expect very much from the site right now though; 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 ...
Step Aside, YouTube, The Pirates are Coming
Mashable! —
... Getting annoyed by the fact that you can’t really find videos (and other copyrighted material) on YouTube anymore? Depending on how patient you are, we’ve got some good news for you. The Pirate Bay’s video sharing project, The Video Bay has opened up its beta version to the public. ...
Pirate Bay founders launch beta of "The Video Bay"
Boing Boing —
... Video Bay - as the project is named - opened up to the public with a very early test version a few weeks ago. Initially, users were able to browse though the videos but this has been disabled now. What is left is an announcement that the site will be launched somewhere in the future.(...)
Pirate Bay Spokesman Peter Sunde agreed that it might take a while before the site goes live and told us that "it will be done when it's done, in the future, in like a year or five."
The Video Bay ...
Pirate Bay's Video Bay takes on YouTube
Techradar - All the latest technology news —
... and video tagging will work. Both demos contain music videos for Rage Against The Machine and AC/DC. The site also says that it is looking for a Javascript hacker to help with its 'free video' venture. It all sounds like the free-for-all YouTube was at the beginning of its life, where users could upload pretty much anything without fear that audio on their clips would be replaced with silence or, worse, the videos taken off forever.Related Links The Video Bay ...
Pirate Bay's Censor-Free YouTube Sails into Beta Extreme [The Pirate Bay]
Gizmodo —
... interesting. For the last couple of years, the guys have been working on an anything-goes, censor-free haven for online video sharing called VideoBay, and it's now gone into "Beta Extreme." ...
Pirate Bay Fires Its Copyright-busting Cannon At YouTube
TechCrunch —
... in their recent trial in Sweden, and, supposedly, they got sentenced to a year in prison and had to pay $4.5 million in damages.
But back in the parallel universe which happens to be the real world, they've appealed the verdict and could probably keep doing so for the next few years. So in the meantime they need to keep busy, and what better way to do this than start a new user driven video portal to take on YouTube, called, predictably, Video Bay, allowing users to post and share video clips without having to worry about copyright violations. Seems reasonable. It's not like ...
Pirate Bay fires its copyright-busting cannon at YouTube
CrunchGear —
... in their recent trial in Sweden, and, supposedly, they got sentenced to a year in prison and had to pay $4.5 million in damages.
But back in the parallel universe which happens to be the real world, they've appealed the verdict and could probably keep doing so for the next few years. So in the meantime they need to keep busy, and what better way to do this than start a new user driven video portal to take on YouTube, called, predictably, Video Bay, allowing users to post and share video clips without having to worry about copyright violations. Seems reasonable. It's not like ...
Pirate Bay founders denied retrial
T3.com All —
... can be granted. In the meantime, despite the growing legal pressure, The Pirate Bay hasn t exactly shied away from the limelight. Over the weekend it took the wraps off its new service, The Video Bay , which promises streamed video and audio content as opposed to Bit Torrents a bit like YouTube but without the removal of content that infringes copyright. The Video Bay is still at a very early stage in its lifecycle, known in Pirate Bay terms as extreme beta . Nothing really works yet, but it s on its way and unlikely to win The Pirate Bay any more fans in industry circles. ...
Pirate Bay founders denied retrial
T3.com News —
... In the meantime, despite the growing legal pressure, The Pirate Bay hasn’t exactly shied away from the limelight. Over the weekend it took the wraps off its new service, The Video Bay, which promises streamed video and audio content as opposed to Bit Torrents – a bit like YouTube but without the removal of content that infringes copyright. ...
The Video Bay launched
Web User | News —
The Pirate Bay is a BitTorrent tracking network The people beind The Pirate Bay, a notorious BitTorrent-tracking website, have announced a new venture - The Video Bay. Described as a 'beta extreme' at the moment, and coming with the warning "don't expect anything to work at all", The Video Bay is a hosting service where members can post videos. Similar to ...
The Pirate Bay’s Next Target: YouTube.
Technologizer —
The creators of the popular BitTorrent search engine The Pirate Bay have turned their sights on a new market: streaming video. The Video Bay aims to take on sites like YouTube and Hulu by offering pirated TV shows and movies through a web browser.
Right now the site is in a pre-launch test ...
The Pirate Bay hatches new streaming video site (sort of)
Ars Technica —
... Move over YouTube—the folks behind The Pirate Bay are working on their own video streaming site with no restrictions. The site will be called The Video Bay and it is now on the Web as a "Beta Extreme," though currently there is no functionality as everything is still under development. There is no indication of when it will be ready for public consumption, either, though when it goes live, it will supposedly host videos without any kind of censorship or copyright restrictions. ...
The Video Bay to Push Open Video (Someday)
NewTeeVee —
... One of The Pirate Bay’s long-discussed side projects, video streaming site The Video Bay, finally has posted a couple of public test clips and revealed a bit of a game plan. But for now it’s in “extreme beta” and may not go live for potentially one to five years, according to the TPB ...
The Video Bay would Hulu and YouTube if it had a chance of actually working
Obsessable News Feed —
The new video-sharing site from the guys behind The Pirate Bay could be much more threatening to the TV and movie industries than BitTorrent, but is it really legally or technically feasible? The Pirate Bay is the largest web venue in the world of sharing files via the BitTorrent protocol, and as you could probably guess if you didn't know already, the files shared include copyrighted material. A Swedish court made that determination and hit its founders with one year of jail time and a fine of over $3 million. The Pirate Bay's attempts to appeal the decision ...
Pirate Bay launches Video Bay "beta extreme"
TechSpot —
... , the folks behind infamous torrent site The Pirate Bay briefly opened up their streaming video platform for public testing today. Dubbed Video Bay , the forthcoming service is billed as a rival to both YouTube and Hulu, where its users will be able to share video and audio clips without of fear of them getting pulled due to copyright violations. [image] Users were able to browse though videos in a beta extreme version of Video Bay, but this has been disabled now two preview clips are still available on the main page. The site implements new HTML 5 features to serve ...
Pirate Bay Takes On YouTube
TechWeb —
... of a YouTube-like video-sharing site. The site, VideoBay , is in "beta extreme," and comes with the warning, "Don't expect anything to work at all" displayed prominently on the front page. A quick look at the available content included a variety of music videos and clips from TV shows. It's unclear how the site will handle take-down requests form copyright holders. The Pirate Bay administrators first announced plans for the video-streaming site more than two years ago. Peter Sunde, spokesman for the group, said there is ...
Pirate Bay Pulls a Napster: Sells for $8 Million
Fast Company - Technology —
... likely equate to users leaving in droves. And then there's all the legal wrangling about distributing movie and music files over a peer-to-peer grid, while the rights owners are most likely already selling some of the same content online via other methods, like iTunes. Perhaps the plan is to continue along the streaming video route, as the Pirate Bay team indicated they were pursuing back in May 2007, or to expand on the recently announced uncensored youTube rival The Video Bay?
Still, it looks like GGF has plans to bump the technology that drives the Bay's ...
'Extreme' beta news: Pirate Bay may or may not be streaming videos
Betanews —
By Tim Conneally, Betanews
While Swedish company Global Gaming Factory X looks to turn the Pirate Bay into a legal business, the torrent tracking site's founders have taken the wraps off of their HTML5 project site called The Video Bay, a streaming video service in the vein of YouTube and, what else, The Pirate Bay. Even though The Video Bay has been in development for two years, it is still extremely rough. The team recently rolled out an "extreme beta" version (like a public alpha) which carries the warning: "Don't expect anything to work at all." Indeed, even the site ...
HTML 5: Ogg Theora Vs H.264 In The Battle For A Web Video Standard
TechCrunch —
... (you’ll need a compatible browser like FF 3.5) dedicated to using HTML5 and the <video> tag, but they admit that neither the audio nor image is up to snuff quite yet. It’s worth mentioning that The Video Bay is dual-wielding HTML5 and Theora as well, but to say its future is uncertain would be ...
Why Is Pirate Bay's Top Man So Glum With His Multi-Million Sale?
paidContent —
We think there’s plenty of water yet to pass under the bridge before the SEK 60 million (£7.4 million) acquisition of The Pirate Bay’s domain actually happens. Not just because little-known Global Gaming Factory X shareholders haven’t yet approved its bid, or because its revenue projections are so outlandish - but because Bay co-founder and chief agitator Peter Sunde seems so ambivalent and stressed about the whole thing...
—On the day the deal was announced, Sunde blogged “The Pirate Bay might get ...
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