Never at a loss for words, the Swedes behind the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker site comment on the state of their new image hosting site, BayIMG, and note that there’s still more to come.
Last week I reported how the Pirate Bay had launched BayIMG, a new image hosting site based on the principle that it will not censor any of the images submitted by users.
The whole purpose of the site is to provide a for those whose images may otherwise not be hosted for a variety of reasons, or perhaps are even at risk of being removed due to being of a sensitive or confidential matter.
The site reads:
We do not censor them. We believe in freedom of speech, it’s of utter importance to us. As long as your pictures are legal they will be hosted here, but we reserve the right to remove images due to technical reasons though.
Well, as it turns out, word of the site’s existence was leaked to the public, and it wasn’t yet ready for launch. Since then they’ve fixed a few bugs and tweaked the site a bit to make it stable but, make the point to say that it’s still in beta and not what they consider its final version.
In the Pirate Bay blog they write:
This weekend we launched a site called BayImg, a site where we offer uncensored hosting for images.
Actually, calling it a launch is wrong, the information that the site was on its way leaked out and all of a sudden we had 150Mbit pr second of traffic to the system, a system not yet optimized for that kind of traffic!
Now, a couple of days later, we’re getting most of the things fixed with the site. It’s still a beta but since people like it we decided to keep it open even though it’s not really finished.
We already have over 5 million image views. You people have uploaded about 150.000 images and the site skyrocketed the first days into one of the 300 biggest sites on the web!
Now the site is stable (knock on wood) and we would like you to use it. If you have any comments on it, please e-mail the bayimg moderators (more info on the site) or join #bayimg on IRC (efnet)!
… the reason for us starting an image hosting site is simple. Sites like flickr.com have started censoring pictures for users (in Germany in particular) and it just opens up for even more censorship. You know, we can’t stand that.
In the closing portion of their thoughts they also note that this is still not the "promised sup rise," the upcoming venture that has been promised to really shake things up.
They write:
(and yeah, this is still not the promised surprise. we need to party less and work more, it’s still on its way! and it’s much bigger than image hosting…)
So despite the fact that they have released an uncensored image hosting site, have plans for an upcoming uncensored video hosting site, it seems that the best is yet to come.
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