Interesting post, Kenya. Blocking exact same copies of videos is of zero value.
Whether you can find one example of a copyrighted song or eight of them makes no difference whatsoever. As far as the audio-matching tool, I haven't researched stuff like this, but I say it's impossible... at least for videos where there's dialogue or other sounds over the music. If you look at audio waveforms, you'll know you can't exactly match The Beatles' "Penny Lane" with a video where someone used "Penny Lane" as the background music while they talk over it or show videos with audio running as well. The waveforms don't match, so the best YouTube can do is *GUESS* that "Penny Lane" MIGHT be used in this video. They'll have better success for those videos where people just ripped the song directly and posted it to YouTube with pictures over it or soundless video or if they took a video directly from a television channel like MTV. The only way to implement this properly is to add the human component of having people responsible for physically checking each video that comes up 'flagged', and then making decisions based on that. YouTube isn't going to do that, because they CURRENTLY don't have the human component in place to check videos labeled exactly what they are, with the actual musicians playing the music in the videos and uploaded by someone with some corny screen name. If they try to bypass this and put it in the hands of the copyright holders, there's no incentive for them to actually watch or listen to the videos in question. They would be able to block videos if they wanted to on the strength that YouTube GUESSED that their music was being used in someone's video. Once again, the whole thing's retarded. None of this would even be happening if YouTube hadn't been *BUILT* on blatant piracy from day 1. -- Bill Cammack http://billcammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Kenya Allmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Google's new content id tool "YouTube Video Identification" is now in beta. It will find and block exact same copies of videos by hash value. I don't see it mentioned but they are developing an audio matching tool as well that finds videos containing music based on songs in their database. > http://www.youtube.com/t/video_id_about > > From the Google blog: > In implementing this technology, we are committed to supporting new > forms of original creativity, protecting fair use, and providing a > seamless user experience—all while we help rights owners easily manage > their content. > http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/latest-content-id-tool-for-youtube.html > > I also found this quote interesting "We provide content owners with an electronic notification and takedown > tool, to help them more easily identify their material and notify us to > take it down with the click of a mouse." The "click of a mouse" is what bothers me. > > > . . . > > kenya allmond > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://kenya.allmond.us > > vm/f 202.478.0490 > > > > > To thine own self be true. > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
