The Pirate Bay has launched a new streaming service that gives people instant access to thousands of pirated movies and TV shows.

Axar.az reports citing the Independent that the BayStream feature offers high-quality streams that rival legitimate platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Disney+.

It appears as a 'B' button below film and show titles, alongside familiar options to download content through torrent software.

BayStream is not the first time the infamous peer-to-peer site has experimented with streaming, having briefly tested a 'Stream It! button in 2016 through a plugin called Torrents Time.

The latest venture from The Pirate Bay, described as an "illegal Netflix", comes despite countless takedown attempts by law enforcement agencies around the world since it launched in 2003.