The most famous torrent site in the world just got a shiny new button. The Pirate Bay has added support for users to stream content directly from the website.

TPB has added a Torrents Time plugin, that lets users stream content directly in their browser window; no need to download the torrent or even the file itself. The feature is still listed as beta and, unfortunately, reports say it still suffers from the regular torrent problem of bad video quality. You're also going to have to wait until a decent number of users are seeding the file, before you can buffer the video quickly enough.

The best-known torrent site in the world now streams pirated content too. The Pirate Bay has added support for Torrents Time, a plugin that lets users stream torrents directly inside their browser. There's no need to download the torrent itself, or a BitTorrent client, or even the actual content — then lets the whole process run inside Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Chrome, on either Windows or OS X. The system is currently in beta, and has all the usual problems of pirated torrents (namely bad image quality and the need to wait for peers to seed the content), but it's still an extremely simple system.

In addition, the Torrents Time plugin was built not just for The Pirate Bay, but for any torrents site, by the guys over at Popcorn-Time.se, so we could likely see this pop up on other torrent hubs any time soon.