Filed under: Audio, Web services, Google
Content filtering in the works for YouTube
Looks like Google's new partners, Warner, Universal, and Sony, are pushing Google to develop a technology that allows copyright owners to search and locate their content and choose to whether they want remove it from YouTube. This new technology that is in development is said to be able to scan audio in mp3 or video and compare so-called electronic fingerprints. In order to make labels happy and avoid costly lawsuits, Google is going to have to implement this software, and prove to record labels that the YouTube service is going to make everyone happy.
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Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Yatrik said 11:58AM on 10-17-2006
Hooray! Victory for greedy bastards!
Greedy Bastards : 4
Freeloading Scum : 1,500,000,000
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Erik said 3:58PM on 10-16-2006
"...that the YouTube service is going to make everyone happy."
...except the users.
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Frankenstein Black said 4:16PM on 10-16-2006
IT WON’T WORK! STOP IT ALREADY WITH THIS DRM NONSENSE!! “CONTENT SEEKS UBIQUITY” PERIOD!! AND THE WAY YOU FIX IT, (DRUM ROLL PLEASE,) IS BY (TASTEFUL, ART IMITATING LIFE TYPE) PRODUCT PLACEMENT (I.E. YES PEOPLE DO DRINK COKE IN REAL LIFE) WITHIN THE CONTENT!
WHAT THIS DOES IS SHIFT THE PARADIGM 180 DEGREES (I.E. SURE, YOUTUBE MY CONTENT ALL YOU WANT. I - NBC, GETS PAID FROM THE ADVERTISER EVERY TIME SOMEONE VIEWS THAT CONTENT.).
$$$$$$$ CHA-CHING, CHA-CHING, CHA-CHING!! $$$$$$$
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Peter said 4:24PM on 10-16-2006
Frankenstein - But then everything becomes one big ad. That would suck.
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Frankenstein Black said 9:49PM on 10-16-2006
If you’re saying we can’t trust the Corporations to simply imitate life in a natural, unobtrusive way and not SPAM the content to death by butchering the artist’s intent with product place adnausium, then your right! I say to bad for them if they can’t implement product placement in a natural, real life way. I see it as the silver bullet to their DRM woes.
What’s the alternative? A never ending battle and billions of wasted dollars in a “I create a new DRM scheme and some werewolf name Jon breaks, reverse engineers or adds his own “for sale DRM?”. Remember, content seeks ubiquity and as long as the human eye can see it and the ear can hear it, it will be “have-able” and after all isn’t that the point? (i.e. yes I want many to see, hear and enjoy my work). So stop trying to patch the never ending holes in the bucket and just paint the water green and let it floooooow. The current course of action is just plain silly I tell ya, and it’s a battle that they JUST WON’T WIN!
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