Microsoft's video sharing site is back up and running. Just over a month after opening Soapbox up to the public, Microsoft returned the site to private beta status in March.

Over the last few months, Microsoft put a system in place allowing copyright holders to find and remove videos that have been uploaded without their permission. This comes at a time when YouTube faces several high profile and expensive lawsuits over copyright violations by its users.

Soapbox is now using digital-fingerprinting technology from Audible Magic to discover copyrighted content.

[via Mashable]