The Usenet archived turned commecial-video-service Guba.com raised eyebrows with recent high profiles deals with Warner Bros. and Sony Pictures to offer current-release, DRM-protected movies and television programming for purchase via download. Now—no doubt in anticipation of Apple Computer entering the digital movie market—Guba.com is trying to draw all the eyeballs it can, hoping people will try, like, and get emotionally attached to Guba’s service before more players mount the stage.
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Sony Pictures Goes Gaga for Guba
It seems like only last week that Usenet media horde Guba.com entered into a deal with Warner Brothers to sell movies online. Well, this week, Sony Pictures is joining the party, announcing it will also sell movies online via Guba.com.
“We are open for business on the Internet. GUBA is a powerful user-generated community and this deal demonstrates our strategy to find the best ways to make our content available to consumers online,” said Benjamin S. Feingold, President of Worldwide Home Entertainment, Digital Distribution and Acquisitions, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. “This is consistent with our studio’s history of bringing the finest entertainment to people through new technologies and channels.”
Warner Bros. Selling Video at Guba.com
Online video sharing site GUBA has been trying to shed its bad-boy image as a haven for pirated video, raw media trawled off Usenet (GUBA used to stand for Gigantic Usenet Binaries Archive), and material the FCC would almost certainly classify as obscene. The company’s aspirations towards legitimacy just got a big shot in the arm from Warner Brothers, which has announced it will rent and sell movies and television episodes via GUBA. The move marks Warner’s second major recent move in the online arena, having announced an initiative last month to distribute legal, protected copies of movies via BitTorrent. Warner also has similar online distribution arrangements with AOL’s In2TV service.
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