Guba drama
 

I never heard of them until today.
How are their sites?

Honestly theyre one of my favorite sponsors, if you can push them the right traffic it converts like crazy

hot!!!!!!!!!

It is a nwes group service with a web based front end.

ANYwebcam.com loves GUBA.
Great program run by some great people.

They don't have sites, they just offer an archive of content from usenet. p2p stuff. Great business model, no need to pay for content, ever!

chris.. long time no speak :)

go to their site and see..they are not your average affiliate program :thumbsup

Hey Kourosh, hit me up when you have a minute.

Newsgroup content is often copyrighted, if they use that content and sell it they are not exactly clean.

burning the midnight oil??:winkwink:

never heard of them either

GUBA is not a primary producer of Usenet content and is therefore exempt from the provisions of 18 U.S.C. hahaha167;2257

Newgroup reseller.

I don't suspect they have too many licenses for the content they sell access to, from what I can see.

Alex

If this post is correct, then its all stolen content and no it's NOT a great business model.

"No need to ever pay for content" WTF, are you kidding me????

I hope this is not true as I can't imagine anyone building a business on such a shaky concept.

Matt

Who is the old dude in the corner?

Apparently selling easy access to stolen content is profitable

I think they kidnapped him off of the six flags commercial production lot.

Corrected for accuracy. :winkwink:

Somebody's got to speak up for GUBA, since there seems to be a lot of hatred and misunderstanding going on. I guess I'm a good somebody to speak up, since GUBA sends me a huge check every two weeks.

Long story short: Don't believe all these folks who slam GUBA. The "stolen content" rap is total bullshit; in the niches I promote, the *vast* majority of the content in the newsgroups is actually put there by the content owners to drive traffic to their websites.

Remember, GUBA is just a friendly interface to the paleolithic part of the internet. Usenet newsgroups, the uncensorable built-to-survive-nuclear-war part. GUBA sells no content and thus is in no position to steal any. It's just an easy way to get at the newsgroups for folks who aren't techie wizards.

I've had dinner with GUBA's head lawyer, and I'll tell you what: they have the legal shit covered. There's nothing illegal in what they are doing; if there were, some of the rich loudmouths here on GFY would have already sued them back to the stone age.

Now for the good part: As an affiliate, GUBA is simply awesome to deal with. GUBA has been very very good to me. Their recurring billings are particularly sweet -- they recur at much higher percentages than anything else I've ever promoted. As for service, they are always johnny-on-the-spot for me by email or phone whenever I have a question or issue.

Quality folks to deal with, great conversions, and the best rebills I've ever encountered. What's not to like?

My advice: Ignore the haters, and give GUBA a try.

guba = thieves like imagecash, fusker,...

Folkbeard

We market on newgroups and GUBA has no license to resell our content. Therefore if they are reselling it they are violating our copyrights. I am not going to waste my time or money to pursue them but it is still not within the scope of legal.

Of course my point is that they aren't reselling content.

Much like ethics the law is based on "intent"... The Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the EU Copyright Directive could probably be used to go after GUBA like it was done when Napster was rulled illegal.

Lawyers will usual tell you the story they have been paid to tell, however judges are not ignorant people :2 cents:

hey that looks like my dog!

guba bubba

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please don't hit me

" I am not going to waste my time or money to pursue them"
and that's why they will continue to be in business.
you can be part of the solution or part of the problem.
thanks for making the right choice.

And if they aren't reselling it, they aren't violating anything.

And they aren't. They are selling a freakin' interface tool.

Your beef is with the folks who post your stuff on UseNet. Why not focus your anger where it belongs?

Ok, cool down people. The old skin is back. :)

Heh, well I don't pay for my content either, I make it picture by picture. Makes me feel like a mug with all the "clever" people around who offer "interfaces" to stuff that's just "lying around"

Whuba? Wtf!

whoa.. that was quick after tremendous GUBA threads...

hahaha... good one.