Making good on a two-year-old promise, the folks behind infamous torrent site The Pirate Bay briefly opened up their streaming video platform for public testing today. Dubbed Video Bay, the forthcoming service is billed as a rival to both YouTube and Hulu, where its users will be able to share video and audio clips without of fear of them getting pulled due to copyright violations.

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looks great , unfortunately I don't think my little ps3 browser will support this

I think this is cool personally, I hope it works out.

The use of the <video> tag is a bad idea if they aren't going to use any of the special things Flash can't do.
Videos that use the <video> tag play very slow on old computers making the video unwatchable... :(

The whole point of this is to progress and using bleeding edge standards is part of that, though. I doubt users of old computers are of concern here, since this isn't a widespread or commercial enterprise in the way YouTube and Hulu are.

Unlike Flash -- where Flash handles the processing -- It's entirely up to the browser to do all the hard work. Whether or not <video> is slower than Flash is really up to the browser's support for hardware acceleration in whatever format the video is in.

So, if you're worried about the <video> tag being harder on older systems... Hang in there.. It's going to get better.

do you think it'll work on the ps3 then rick eventually ? maybe they'll give us an update with google chrome . I can dream can't I.

I don't really know. If you've hacked up your PS3 though and are running Linux, it's just a matter of getting an IBM PPC port of Firefox 3.5

no I haven't ,I don't have the know how.