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Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Is MPAA Indirectly Warning GUBA?

Quick link today from A Copyfighter's Musings blog. In his post GUBA and the MPAA's Usenet suits, Derek Slater writes about his suspect that MPAA's recent Usenet suits are
meant as a warning shot across the bow of companies like Guba.
Guba and other similar companies charge users for indexing and browsing Usenet images and videos through a web based interface. The point is that if this type of business could be sustained legally or not in the long term.

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Friday, January 27, 2006

GUBA Announces 20,000+ Usenet Videos for Sony Playstation Portable

Today GUBA announced the immediate availability of more than 20,000 videos in Sony Playstation Portable Format. GUBA, a multimedia search service of Usenet videos, offers to its subscribers the ability to browse and download thousands of videos and more general multimedia content, retrieved from Usenet newsgroups. These videos are automatically optimized for Apple iPod/iTunes format, Flash and now, PSP, as well as stored in their originally uploaded format.
According to the press release:
"GUBA has once again demonstrated why it is the market-leader in providing content to all platforms," said Thomas McInerney, CEO of GUBA. "Our technical leadership has enabled us to further extend the GUBA experience onto a new platform that has proven to be one of the hottest sources of portable entertainment."

This service complements with the recently-announced RSS subscription feature that enable clients to subscribe to RSS feeds using keywords that match particular interests.

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Saturday, January 07, 2006

GUBA Announces First RSS Newsfeed Capability for Usenet Videos

Yesterday GUBA, the Usenet provider specialized in binaries and multimedia content, has announced the ability for GUBA subscribers to receive RSS (Really Simple Syndication) newsfeeds, which summarize new video content that has been posted to Usenet in virtual real-time.
According to the company press release:

This free enhancement to GUBA allows users to subscribe to RSS feeds with keywords matching their particular interests - when new videos are posted to Usenet matching these user-defined parameters, the user is instantly notified via RSS with the ability to download the video directly into iTunes. GUBA automatically uses the indexed keywords of the file's description to provide RSS feeds.

The company also announced that:
In addition, GUBA also announced that it has enabled and prominently displayed QuickTime download links throughout its search, content and other portions of its site, in testimony to GUBA's strong support for the high-quality and cross-platform support offered by the QuickTime media format.
Something similar is already available for textual newsgroups through Google Groups, that allows to create email alerts for usenet messages based on keyword(s) matching.

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