Sony inks deal with porn firm
p2p news / p2pnet: Warner Bros recently revealed it had climbed into bed with GUBA, a company specializing in online porn searches.
Now Sony Pictures has done the same.
“You may well know that some of the best porn gets circulated on newsgroups," says Supervert. But, "You need a news reader, and often you miss some of the best posts, or you end up with just fragments of a series." And, "That’s where GUBA comes in. GUBA archives all the porn from newsgroups. Rather than pay for a news account, you pay for a GUBA account and bingo! You have access to all that porn. Good deal!"
The Warner deal with Guba bore remarkable similarities to the one the MPAA made with BitTorrent and Guba said it, too, had agreed, “to start filtering copyright and obscene content and institute tougher security measures after talks with the Motion Picture Association of America," said the Associated Press at the time.
“Sony Pictures has agreed to offer a 100 of the studio’s feature-length films on Guba’s online store,” says ZDNet News, also opining that of online video-sharing sites, “Guba is the only one offering a means to legally download movies over the Internet”.
Expect Viacom, Fox, NBC Universal and Disney, the remaining four of the Big Six Hollywood studios, to soon follow suit.
Meanwhile, like Warner, Sony believes it’ll be able to milk gullible online movie lovers for $20 for “newer releases” with a $10 starting price for “older” titles.
Will it succeed? Well, as the saying goes, "There’s a sucker born every minute."
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Also See:
climbed into bed -Warner Bros teams with porn firm, June 27, 2006
ZDNet News – Guba inks film deal with Sony Pictures, July 10, 2006
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July 11th, 2006 at 3:52 pm
Urgh, anyone who gets involved in that deserves to be fleeced, frankly.
Generally though this is more evidence of MPAA members flailing about in the dark, no clue whatsoever. Anything that pops up that the MPAA members may think is even slightly viable, or a lead-in for ‘piracy’, is co-opted, assimilated, and generally nullified.
July 11th, 2006 at 4:51 pm
I have a fleece glove, it feels soooo good when I use it watching GUBA!
July 12th, 2006 at 3:24 am
$20 to download a movie? Hot Darn! That’s the biggest rip off ever. Why in the world would someone want to waste their bandwidth to download a file as big as a movie when you can just go to the store and buy it for about the same price!!!!
Not only does it takes time to download, you probably won’t be able to transfer it into a dvd so you can view it on a your t.v (all thanks to DRM). This is nuts. What kind of business guro came up with this idea? $20 to waste 1 or 2 hours worth of bandwidth just download and be restricted to viewing it on the computer? No thanks….