Those tiring of the growing restrictions put by rightsholders on video on You Tube and elsewhere may eventually find a home at The Video Bay.  Currently in "beta extreme", the site is the latest brainchild of the folks behind the Pirate Bay; and if their mounting problems in Swedish courts weren’t already enough, this is sure to add to their legal bills.

"Both Live And Drunk Coding"

"Don’t expect anything to work at all". reads the simple front page, and a test drive shows that almost nothing does. But the plans are ambitious.

"To stay in the spirit on which TPB was founded and using the Latest Technology™, TVB aims to use the new HTML5 features, more specificly the <video> and <audio> tags with the ogg/theora video and audio formats. 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."

One audio and one video demo are up on the site, but to view any audio or video clips on the site you need a browser that can handle the HTML5 <video> and/or <audio> tag including:

• Firefox 3.5 beta 4
• Opera 9.52 preview
• Google Chrome 3
• Safari 3.4 & Safari 4

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