Memory and bandwith concerns aside, this is a new age in streaming video. The website DailyEpisodes.com offers the entire runs of the Simpsons, South Park, Futurama, Family Guy, and American Dad on fast streaming video in slightly better than poor quality. This barebones site with a slew of Google Ads makes impressive use of third-party video hosting to offer hundreds of gigabytes of video. Before getting into piracy concerns, this is quite impressive.

As for the piracy, this is a concern. The best file-sharing programs, like BitTorrent, can be cumbersome for the casual computer user. But these Dailymation hosted videoes are so simple to use, most people are apt to use it. In this sense, I would guess the site’s no-effort layout hurts the masses from visiting (helping to keep the media companies from finding out, possibly). But the simple fact this site can exist is as exciting as it is worrisome for the use of this technology.