NetworksTPB Shows Off Beginnings Of YouTube Rival.
Just last week the Pirate Bay four were told that their appeal for a retrial had been denied. This week, the Pirate Bay is bouncing back and revealing VideoBay, the sitesò€™ video streaming project.
TorrentFreak reports that on The Video Bay, users can share clips and videos without the pesky worry that the YouTube police will take their content offline for violating copyrights. Before you get all excited, VideoBay isn"t exactly open for business, and donò€™t expect it to be online and in full working order for a while. The Pirate Bay announced the project two years ago and according to TF, it could be years before we see the fruits of the team"s labor.
The site currently displays an announcement detailing whatò€™s going on with the site along with a disclaimer that says, "Donò€™t expect anything to work at all."
"To stay in the spirit on which TPB was founded and using the Latest Technologyò„¢, 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."
Currently busy with the original Pirate Bay trial, spokesperson for the group Peter Sunde told TorrentFreak that the schedule theyò€™re working with when it comes to development is a "when itò€™s done, itò€™s done affair."
"It will be done when itò€™s done," Sunde said. "In the future, in like a year or five."
Weò€™re excited to see what the guys come up with, we just donò€™t quite understand how they plan to get around the issue of copyright. As YouTube has found out on numerous occasions, streaming video that you donò€™t own the rights to can lead to quite a few take down orders.