Pirate Bay Fires Video Bay Across YouTube's and Hulu's Bows

By Geoff Duncan
June 29, 2009

The folks behind Pirate Bay have set their sites on mainstream Hollywood, promising high-definition browser based video.

The folks behind the infamous Pirate Bay site (which tracks BitTorrent feeds worldwide) are apparently getting ready to fire another shot across the bow of the so-called Content Cartel with Video Bay, and experimental site that aims to provide high-definition in-browser via using new features in HTML 5 (like the and tags) to stream content directly to users without making them wait for massive content to download first. And, in true Pirate Bay fashion, the site doesn't seem very concerned with only providing access to material that's being distributed with permission of copyright holders.

As it stands now, the Video Bay site seems purely experimental—warnings on the site warn absolutely nothing may work, and sporadic attempts to access the site have found video content has been accessible ...

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