The Silent Number

Posted: 2009-06-27

Ever since word got out a couple of years ago that the pioneers of the anti imaginary property movement, The Pirate Bay, were working on a YouTube competitor, i've been quite excited! I love Google and YouTube, but they need some competitors to revolutionize online video similar to GMail and web-based email. First, Dailymotion created an open video website and transcoded all of their users' videos into Ogg Theora/Vorbis to use with the HTML 5 <video> tag, and now The Video Bay is launching which will join Dailymotion in using HTML 5 and Ogg.


I'm excited to see what new cards they bring to the table on top of keeping with the spirit of The Pirate Bay to protect users' privacy and ignore copyright and pretty much all other "intellectual property"-- maybe even new hope for P2P streaming media (internet radio & TV)! This should at least put pressure on Google/YouTube to withdraw their previous comments on using Ogg Theora/Vorbis and expand their HTML 5 demo using it. Heck, maybe they'll actually start making real improvements to YouTube. I'm actually considering switching my channel over already, but we'll have to see what The Video Bay looks like when it fully launches.