March 7, 2006
GUBA and the MPAA’s Usenet suits
I wonder if Guba has anything to do with the MPAA’s recent Usenet suits. Guba indexes Usenet video and is accessible via a browser. You can then watch video using Flash in your browser or download the video file. The service costs $14.95 per month.
Guess who probably wants a cut? If the MPAA is starting to get concerned about YouTube having advertising, then this has got to concern them. Guba certainly isn’t as popular a site, and MPAA had reasons to target Usenet anyway, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this was meant as a warning shot across the bow of companies like Guba.
Note that Guba, like YouTube, has a takedown policy and they also use filters to screen out images reported as infringing if they get reposted. Whether they’re planning something similar for videos, I don’t know.
Filed by Derek Slater at 1:05 am under General news
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