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The Usenet video and image archive service GUBA can now transcode video content to a format compatible with the Sony PSP. more
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GUBA Usenet video service adds PSP support
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Peter Cohen 
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Posted 30 January 2006 - 11:30 AM
GUBA claims that it employs a system that can weed out and exclude copyrighted content even if the filenames are changed. Obviously, it's somewhat dependent on GUBA users actually reporting copyright violations when they find them.
I have no idea how effective it is, but the rep who I talked with at Macworld Expo emphasized this capability, so it's not as if GUBA is taking a blind eye to the fact that the Usenet can be used for evil as well as for good...
I have no idea how effective it is, but the rep who I talked with at Macworld Expo emphasized this capability, so it's not as if GUBA is taking a blind eye to the fact that the Usenet can be used for evil as well as for good...
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tomtom
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Posted 30 January 2006 - 01:42 PM
Take a look at GUBA.
Much of the content on its site is clearly Copyright material - even in part format.
Most binary content posted on Usenet is now simply derived from Copyright material.
Usenet was not originally set up for this purpose. The technology was for text based messaging and each message constrained to a certain size. Technologies emerged to use the text to represent binary data for pictures or whatever. Further technologies allowed the various text messages to be combined so that even large video files could be reconstructed from the information contained in the text files to the extent that ISO Disk Images of DVD's are now freely available in Usenet.
Usenet remains a text messaging board. It is the posting applications and news-readers that enable Usenet for binaries.
By cataloging the stuff, perhaps the term "incite" could be used. By harvesting the "texts' and reformatting and archiving the term "republishing" is appropriate. Take a look at the GUBA content and ask yourself the question on whether this material would have been originally published without Copyright, If the material is very old it is possible that Copyright has expired but Usenet is about today or even tomorrow in many cases.
Much of the content on its site is clearly Copyright material - even in part format.
Most binary content posted on Usenet is now simply derived from Copyright material.
Usenet was not originally set up for this purpose. The technology was for text based messaging and each message constrained to a certain size. Technologies emerged to use the text to represent binary data for pictures or whatever. Further technologies allowed the various text messages to be combined so that even large video files could be reconstructed from the information contained in the text files to the extent that ISO Disk Images of DVD's are now freely available in Usenet.
Usenet remains a text messaging board. It is the posting applications and news-readers that enable Usenet for binaries.
By cataloging the stuff, perhaps the term "incite" could be used. By harvesting the "texts' and reformatting and archiving the term "republishing" is appropriate. Take a look at the GUBA content and ask yourself the question on whether this material would have been originally published without Copyright, If the material is very old it is possible that Copyright has expired but Usenet is about today or even tomorrow in many cases.
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