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The Pirate Bay is Trialing High-Quality Video Streaming Links - TorrentFreak
Developments over the past few days indicate that The Pirate Bay may about to fully launch a brand new feature. In addition to traditional magnet links, many titles now feature a subtle 'B' button which allow users to stream movies and TV shows directly in the browser on a new site called BayStream.
The Pirate Bay is well known for its huge database of magnet links which allow users to download most types of content imaginable.
Over the past few days, however, the platform has been adding a brand new feature that will please those who prefer to access movies and TV shows instantly, rather than waiting for them to download.
As the image below shows, in addition to the familiar magnet and trusted uploader icons displayed alongside video and TV show releases, the site also features a small orange ‘B’ graphic.
In some cases (but currently not all), pressing these buttons when they appear next to a video release diverts users to a new platform called BayStream. Here, the chosen content can be streamed directly in the browser using a YouTube-style player interface.
Loading times appear swift when the content is actually available and as the screenshot below shows, the material appears to be sourced, at least in some cases, from torrent releases.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 10 2019, @02:20PM
I'm not seeing a lack of good content. I'm seeing the good content getting burred in mediocre content. When I look at Netflix the catalog is mostly B movies, their own content (which generally has pretty good production quality), and a handful of A list content (some of it quite old, but it's still A-list).
Same thing on Amazon Prime Video, but Amazon acknowledges that Prime Video is really a perk of being a Prime member to get free shipping.
I'm not in the USA, so no idea about HULU.
I haven't looked at Disney+ yet, but Disney has a pretty huge catalog of family friendly TV. Remember the old Walt Disney Presents and other anthology series from the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, and into the 90's? Ya, okay so I'm not old enough to remember all of that either. But if you can find it, it was pretty good for whole family viewing.
HBO seams to have a pretty good catalog. But in my case I can only get it if I also get a collection of utter crap (CraveTV) and add-on HBO.