Fede Alvarez will probably be a known name in the near future. He’s already famous on You Tube as the director of the short film Panic Attack!, which was made with only a few hundred bucks and looks better than most big-budget Hollywood garbage. Sam Raimi, impressed by the short film, has signed Mr. Alvarez to work for his production company Ghost House Pictures, which recently released Drag Me to Hell.

Source: Collider

YouTube’s reign of video dominance may be coming to an end, as The Pirate Bay is jumping into the video-hosting business, a fact that is sure to irritate every music and movie company on the planet.

What will separate The Video Bay apart from YouTube? A total disregard for copyright. Whereas YouTube doesn’t waste any time pulling down videos, The Video Bay will laugh it off and basically say, “Come and get us.”

The Video Bay is currently undergoing beta-testing, which is open for any and all. There isn’t much to see quite yet and the place is full of bugs, but you can expect to hear a lot about this site in the months, and years, to come.

From BBC:

TBP founder, Peter Sunde, announced The Video Bay to the Open Video Conference in New York.

In a statement on the site, Mr Sunde said the service would use the latest HTML 5 features.

“More specifically the audio and video 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 encoding, so please don’t bug us too much if the site isn’t working properly,” he said.

Although the site is in its early stages, a preview showed a number of copyright music videos available for viewing in the navigation sidebar.

The move will be seen by some as provocative, given that the founders of The Pirate Bay were found guilty of breaking copyright law and were sentenced to a year in jail in April, though they are currently still free men.

Sign up for The Video Bay Beta.

So you’re bored, but you happen to own a cat. Problem solved. When you cat is sleeping, see how many things you can stack on the creature before you finally wake it up. Upload the result to YouTube and join a new meme that is gaining in popularity.

Here’s a video of 61 things being stacked on a cat.