The Pirate Bay Is Getting Into Streaming?

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Don Reisinger

TechCrunch.com
Monday, September 22, 2008; 5:55 AM

The Pirate Bay, the world's largest BitTorrent tracker (and one of the most hated by studios), may be getting into streaming, a tipster told us.

The Pirate Bay, which has 3 million users and is closing in on 15 million peers, first mentioned the possibility of a streaming service back in May, but little was heard about it until a cryptic birthday wish to co-founder Peter Sunde (aka Brokep) was posted (Google Translation Alert) on the service's blog in which a mention of the upcoming streaming service was spotted briefly before it was taken down.

The Pirate Bay may be on to something with its P2P streaming. P2P downloading has always been the toast of the town in the piracy community, but the next stage may be a move towards streaming, which makes it easier for users to watch movies and TV shows. And if that will really happen, it only makes sense for The Pirate Bay to lead the way.

( Update: I contacted Peter Sunde at Pirate Bay, who has confirmed that The Pirate City is not one of the Pirate Bay's properties, but he did not give any indication of when or if a streaming service would be made available.)

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