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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