The Pirate Tube, Yarrr!

by sock • 19 May 2007, 01:15 • Journals
The pirate bay, a site well known for it's looting and swashbuckling, has announced a bold new project: a youtube style video site. The site, which will be moderated only by the community, is currently in the beta stage with a small proportion of live content. As mentioned before, the most exciting aspect of this gambit is the community moderation: no longer will an xfire journal be hampered by a "content has been removed" message.

Community moderation sounds like a nice idea, but it has to be wondered whether this type of moderation will be effective in the face of mass porn uploads: how long will it be before the site degrades into nothing more than a glorified porn archive? Failing that, one has to contemplate thepiratebay's strategy with regard to copyright notices. The content will be hosted on pirate bay services, the impunity with which the bittorrent site operates will no longer be available, they will have to operate inside the law.

Will this site be a youtube killer? Or will it fade into pergatory with the myriad other internet start ups? The onus is on you, the users: you decide!

TheVideoBay
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swas 19 May 2007, 02:17
swashbuckling :<<
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Nellie 19 May 2007, 02:18
They've the SCC on 24 hour standby for when it all goes wrong.

At best it''ll be a poor mans google video, go the same way as their island...
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sock 19 May 2007, 02:27
They apparently have a few tricks up their sleeves for copyright notices, it could get interesting.

Although, stage6 seems to be the new favorite with TV and movie uploaders. I can't blame them, the quality on that site is stunning when you compare it with youtube and dailmotion: you can also download the videos to your hard drive without the need for fancy application.
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hellgoat 19 May 2007, 02:39
Like buying their own country outside the coast of UK?
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sock 19 May 2007, 02:46
That was a genuine effort that lacked logistical planning and foresight. This is a completely different situation: they have experience setting up websites.
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hellgoat 19 May 2007, 03:09
I've met the owners IRL. How cool isn't that?
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swas 19 May 2007, 02:40
everything has a pink filter over it when i watch something at stage6 :(
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sock 19 May 2007, 02:45
I have to right click watch in movie player. What o/s are you using? If it's windows then it should work after you've downloaded their web player.
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swas 19 May 2007, 02:46
ye winxp

oh i see the upgrade window just cant click anything must be my firewall blocking it.

Guess im gonna watch some prisonbreak instead.

GOODNIGHT!
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fusen 19 May 2007, 03:42
actually it was a total PR move which they later admitted to
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sock 19 May 2007, 03:56
My mistake, but what do you expect from pirates?

The only reason people were pissed was because of the money donated, but I'd be suprised if that didn't go back into this project or indeed the other, more secret one.
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fusen 19 May 2007, 03:57
erm the secret one that was talked about in the blog?

as this is probably it
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sock 19 May 2007, 04:04
Read the article again, the part in bold, it implies that there's another project in the works. It might just be bad english though.
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overdrive 19 May 2007, 03:22
porn you say?
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