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YouTube Antipiracy Video Identification System Enters Beta Testing
Posted by Matt Buchanan at 6:40 AM on October 17, 2007
The not-so hotly anticipated GooTube antipiracy system has jumped into beta. Creatively dubbed Video Identification, it's a digital fingerprint setup where uploaded clips are matched against a stock of legit clips provided by their owners—YouTube will then follow whatever course the copyright holder wants, be it leave it or pull it. We'll have a better idea of how well it works in coming weeks as companies sign up with the test and we watch vast swaths of video either die off or sit tight. Of course, the real question is: Just how long will this be in "beta"? [Google Blog via PC World, Flickr]
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Reckless
Posted October 17, 2007 9:08 AM
I'd like to see this applied to compare all clips against each other to remove duplicates.
For some reason it really irks me to see 40 people uploading the same video just because they want to be liked. This will only get worse if they start paying people for the most viewed videos (I recall hearing something about that a while back)
Brendan
Posted October 17, 2007 3:26 PM
"Say goodbye to YouTube"... at least they sold it while it was worth something...
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