GUBA today announced immediate availability of a new Apple iPod video feature for its subscribers. GUBA now offers the first-ever capability to watch videos from Usenet, automatically transcode those videos directly into the correct iPod video format and to seamlessly download them into iTunes to sync with the iPod. iPod support was initially planned to launch at the end of November, but was accelerated as a result of demand from GUBA’s thousands of paying customers (US$14.95 per month).
GUBA is an enhanced service for searching, downloading, and viewing terabytes of rich media content from ‘the dark web.’ The dark web
includes Usenet, an integral part of the Internet whose multimedia content is not indexed by the major search engines such as Yahoo, Google or Microsoft.
“With our automatic transcoding of GUBA-indexed Usenet videos, GUBA now has the largest library of iPod-ready video content in the world – easily 25,000 files or more,” said Thomas McInerney, CEO of GUBA in a statement. “Automatic transcoding to iPod means videos from Usenet – including a wealth of user-created content across a wide range of interests – are now literally available in your hip pocket. The early availability of iPod support is just one additional example of GUBA’s technology leadership – we continue to innovate, offering our customers the most comprehensive, easy-to-use and advanced method for finding and enjoying rich media content. We expect to announce a number of other features, alliances and licenses over the coming months to make GUBA the premier destination site on the Web for legitimate, copyright-friendly content.”
GUBA enables immediate access to terabytes of new and unique content from Usenet – the world’s largest electronic bulletin board and the predecessor network to the World Wide Web. Since 1979, Usenet has been one of the most active parts of the online community, with millions of users and terabytes of content that are part of more than 100,000 unique newsgroups– all updated on a moment-by-moment basis. Until now, Usenet has been burdensome to navigate because of its antiquated and non-intuitive interface. In the past, users could not efficiently browse multimedia content, preview content before downloading, or easily search and view content posted in disparate file formats. With GUBA, finding compelling video and image content is as simple as entering a search term and clicking on a result, or simply browsing Usenet through the enhanced GUBA interface.
As a copyright-friendly service, GUBA does not index feature films or MP3s and is fully DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) compliant.
Typical Usenet providers, such as ISPs and Universities, require special client software, but GUBA offers an easy-to-use Web interface combined with proprietary backend technology developed over seven years to deliver multimedia-optimized search for 300,000 newly indexed images and videos per day – the equivalent of three files per second.
More info: http://www.guba.com
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Guba Usenet search engine preps video porn for Apple iPod – November 02, 2005
sounds like good news, but what type of video is this?
shows? news? porn? national geographic clips?
terabyte are available, but not terabyte are converted.
Lame! $14.95 a month to download illegal content? Lame!!!!!!
YEEEEEEHAWWWWWWWWW!!!
Step right up ‘n get yer iPods just a-burstin’ with illegal porn!!!!!!
All the stuff ya can’t git on the legal web!!!!
Yassir, we gots the REAL dark stuff in here! Just take a peek!
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This kind of thing is going to permanently cement the iPod as a long-time part of popular culture.
B-U-Y . . .
A-A-P-L . . .
N-O-W!
Ever tried transcoding this stuff? It take a LONG time. I did some transcoding of a 2 hr. moview using Handbreak and quicktime pro. On a G4 1.25 the Quicktime pro conversion from MP4 at 720×480 to 320×240 (iPod format) took a day and a half. Using Handbreak to do the same thing on a 2Ghz g5 took over 12 hrs.
My question is, how is GUBA doing this on the fly? It is transcoding as it streams the file?
MDN word: want
The offer the basic types of popular video formats… avi, qt, real, etc., but support other codecs like divx and whatnot.
They don’t support illegal content as Your Brain is suggesting and go to great lengths to remove it as soon as someone flags it.
As far as paying 15 bucks a month for the service, that’s a personal choice… but I can remember the days when USNET was all there was… only I was paying 12 dollars an hour for access through Compuserv.
It’s all there though, porn, simpons, old black & white television shows, music videos… if you’re into multimedia it’s worth the price of admission.
oh, its illegal. well then this will actually work against apple because TV execs will think that the ipod is helping illegal video distribution.
“sounds like good news, but what type of video is this?”
If you took a second to click on the link, you wouldn’t need to ask…
nevermind my above post…..
Why not just get an easynews account for 10 bucks a month, they have the best retention on usenet anyway and the most groups. then go get yourself igrabnews and have all the multimedia content you want legal or otherwise.
This was originally announced a week ago and I signed up.
I already had panic’s news service with unison, so didn’t particularly need guba. However…the ability to download already transcoded files ready to download right into itunes and the ipod makes it worth the price.
They offer lots of porn groups, which I’m not terribly interested in, but also the scifi, tv and anime multimedia groups, which I have downloaded from quite a bit the past few days.
Anime, porn, flipbooks, usenet videos, and on and on and on! Wow!
All we are missing now is some good ol’ ASCII art and some DOS-based games! Ooo, ooo, ooo, how about Etch-A-Sketch capability? The thumbwheel is about as useful for that as those two little dials.
Yeehaw!
Because UHHHHHH Guba saves time and effort. A lot of time and effort. Let Guba do the work and you’ll be getting your spank on much quicker.
Paying $14.95 per month to support a porn distributor is stupid…
Andrew Hamilton
Las Vegas Videographers
http://www.hiproductions.com
thought i’d give it a try after dl the new madonna video
the site hangs safari and ie
either it really sucks or a huge number of people are now hitting it
stay away for a while
What is the best “client” or what ever gizmo they use to get stuff off usenet with a MAC?
dont know if its the best but i use hogwasher for newsgroup access and never had a problem
Best tool for binaries on the mac is iGrabnews.
On the pc it is newsbin pro.
period.