Media News - Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Pirate Bay launches video streaming service to rival YouTube
The Pirate Bay, the file-sharing web site that flung Europe into a heated debate over online copyright, has launched a new video sharing service that could rival YouTube. The men behind The Pirate Bay are facing jail and have to pay GBP 2.4m in damages after being found guilty of promoting copyright infringement. But they still plan to launch the new site, called The Video Bay, which could also put them in violation of copyright law. At the moment, the Pirate Bay has called the service a 'Beta Extreme'. 'Don't expect anything to work at all,' says a note on The Video Bay site. '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.' The launch follows the Pirate Bay application for a retrial being rejected by the Swedish courts. The men had hoped to overturn the guilty verdicts after hearing that Judge Tomas Norstrom belonged to the Swedish Copyright Association. A spokesman for the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry said he could not comment on the launch of The Video Bay unless the organisation was going to take legal action. (VNU Net UK)
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