Thursday, June 21, 2007

Free Image Hosting (uncensored)

Well known and often controversial BitTorrent tracking site The Pirate Bay has launched BayImg, an uncensored free image hosting service.

The Pirate Bay has previously been private beta testing a video hosting site
which is yet to launch. BayImg is available now and offers hosting up
to 100mb with a promise that as long as the image is legal, they won’t
censor it, although interestingly “legal” isn’t explained. There is
also false attribution of “I disapprove of what you say, but I will
defend to the death your right to say it” to Voltaire (the phrase was
invented by a later author
as an epitome of Voltaire’s attitude to free speech) and yet despite
the question marks over legalities the chances of anything being
censored by the team from The Pirate Bay would be close to zero anyway.


No registration is required for users wishing to upload files, and BayImg is said to support 140 different file formats.


BayImg competes directly with CNet’s AllYouCanUpload but with one distinct advantage: DMCA requests to BayImg will have no standing.

Source: techcrunch





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