An approach that is currently in development is Namecoin. It's a decentralized DNS approach based on Bitcoin. Names are registered and stored in the namecoin blockchain. More information is available at the dot-bit project website. Currently the software is there for registering and looking up names. What's needed is easier to use software like browser plugins and DNS proxies that lookup via namecoin. Some of this is in progress like the proxy, DNS and whois capability provided by namecoin.us.

That's not completely correct IMHO. Many forum members have no problems with Bitcoin being used by groups like WikiLeaks. The reasons for those who don't want them to use it vary but the most common I've seen is that they're worried that it's too soon for Bitcoin. There may be implementation issues or existing limits in Bitcoin that are large influx of users would make it difficult to fix or workaround. For these reasons some members seem to be preferring a slow and cautious approach to promoting Bitcoin.

It is not blocking 1.9.2 and will not be in Firefox 3.6, sorry. Unless FF 3.6 is delayed significantly.

Have you tried using tinyvid.tv. It uses Ogg Theora, using HTML 5 video, will fallback to the Java Cortado applet to play the video if the browser doesn't support HTML5.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't x264 an encoder, not a decoder? x264 implements h.264 which requires patent licensing. So even if the code is open, using it requires payments. How is that more open than Theora? On the decoding front, what options are there for h.264? ffmpeg, but again that has licensing issues.