There was a copyright protection tool developed by this guy in California recently that uses pixel identification to troll through internet sites like youtube and myspace and finds copyrighted films--its identification is sophisticated enough that it can find copyright films ripped from DVD (OBVIOUSLY) but it can also find cam rips, even with a shaky camera, even with people walking in front of the screen. I hear it does well regardless of compression and pixel size/aspect ratio.
I don't know how related they are, but on the level of 1's and 0's it almost seems like it could be reverse engineered. You could feed a snippet into a search engine (discogs) which it uses to search its library and find a match. If it were engineered well enough, maybe it could handle input files that were pristine or recorded with a handheld device like a microcassette or a cell phone. So if you had a recording off the radio or some other waveform source, and there were a database with this engine and a lot of waveform data to attempt to match it up to, you could theoretically get anything ID'd, limited only by how comprehensive the database is. That's a Goliath-size order of a 'ware, but who knows. Just daydreaming here... ;) On 7/19/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Afternoon (well it is here) all. I've been quiet as I'm moving PCs at the mo. Got mail on one and everything else on another and unable to finish off (long story). Anyway want I want to know is does anyone know of a site on the Discogs tip but where you can search by the names of tracks - even those that weren't a release in their own right but are just album tracks? A lot to ask I know and maybe the huge amount of data concerned (imagine searching on a title like "I Love You"!) means it hasn't come along yet (though I guess it will, maybe Discogs II is just around the corner). Be bl00dy useful though.
