Google to begin massive copyright filtering on YouTube in September

[Bellamy]

YouTube to Check for Illegal Videos Using Digital Fingerprints

 

Google to begin massive copyright filtering on YouTube in September

 

YouTube, once the wild west of user-fuelled Internet broadcasting, will soon have a new sheriff in town. Google, owner of YouTube, said that it hopes to have new technology in place in September to half the posting of copyrighted videos on its website.

 

Google lawyer Philip S. Beck told a U.S. District Judge currently involved in the company’s legal matters that YouTube is working “very intensely and cooperating” with major content companies on video recognition technology as sophisticated as the fingerprint technology used by the F.B.I., according to the Associated Press.

 

Beck described the system as a recognition technology that would rely on digital fingerprints that copyright holders would provide to YouTube to help filter out illegal uploads. Once the fingerprint is in the system, YouTube’s software would be able to recognized and remove it within a minute or two.

 

Google says that it hopes that its new software would end the complaints – and litigation – from companies such as Viacom.

 

“Perhaps the filtering mechanism will help. If so, we’ll be very grateful for that,” said Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., a lawyer for Viacom.

 

In March, Viacom filed a lawsuit against Google alleging that the Mountain View, Calif. software company intentionally committed massive copyright infringement of Viacom’s properties. The lawsuit seeks more than $1 billion in damages, in addition to an injunction that will prohibit Google/YouTube from further copyright infringement. Google later responded to the lawsuit by denying that it had done anything illegal.

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[AllCeline]

Now, do uploading these protected videos really hurt these companies that much? Seems like companies are just being stingy. Edited August 4, 2007 at 02:16 PM by AllCeline

[dj4celine]

I just dont get how uploading videos can be a loss to companies

[Mozinha]

Stupid people. Youtube will definately lose 90% of it's members and watchers if this material is forbidden for good.

[celinerific]

Stupid people. Youtube will definately lose 90% of it's members and watchers if this material is forbidden for good.

Do doubt.

[medley]

I hope they don't filter things like Celine live performances...

The whole thing is quite dumb though.

[KimboCosmo]

Uh yea, I'm gonna be p/oed if they delete my fav's list...

[Alice]

we'd better download all we cane before they delete our favourite stuff

[Krys]

aih but its a pain in the butt to convert all those flv files to mpeg files

[Mozinha]

I kind have a feeling this won't actually work.