MySpace announces audio filtering to reduce copyright infringement
News: MySpace beat YouTube to the punch today, announcing the deployment of software tools to help copyright holders identify audio files that have been incorporated into video without authorization of the copyright holders. The copyright holders can apparently send digital fingerprints contained in audio files to MySpace for its database; MySpace’s filtering presumably then attempts to identify video and audio files uploaded onto MySpace that contain the digital fingerprint. Any file that does so (without authorization) will be blocked. (More here)
Analysis: I can’t help but think this is a positive development for all interested parties. We don’t know how well this filtering technology works yet, but it’s a start.
February 13, 2007 at 5:16 pm
That could make a huge impact on the web… good for some, bad for others I suppose
February 18, 2007 at 2:05 am
My Motional media ID system actually works by looking at the video’s pictures, not by looking, (hearing) at the audio.
It is very powerful from many points of view.
Just a small correction of fact
Best to all
David Stebbings.
May 12, 2007 at 1:05 am
And what if the video has been altered ? Either they change the beginning of the video or end ? Or altered smth in the middle ?