YouTube's Content Identification Failure Raises Eyebrows

MSNBC is carrying a story looking at YouTube's failure to follow through with a promised 'content identification system' by the end of the year. The article goes on to discuss the possible impact this failure will have on the site's (so far) good relations with television, music, and movie studios. From the article: "If the delay lasts for more than a week or two into the new year, suggesting more than just a slight technical hitch, 'this is certainly going to be a serious issue', [Mike McGuire, a digital media analyst at Gartner] added. Leading music companies have already made clear they see completion of YouTube's anti-piracy technology as an important step in any closer co-operation. Failure to build adequate systems to protect copyright owners could also add to the risk of legal action against the site."

Comments

Easiest code EVAR

[Anonymous Coward]

Here you go guys, this one's on the house:

if (content) {
    return "This Youtube content has been identified as: Bad";
}

Re:Easiest code EVAR

[dimeglio]

The code is not the problem. Maybe the MPAA was requested to provide the MD5SUM of all the material they object to be published. I suppose they haven't completed this. So it's not necessarily YouTube's fault. ;-)

10 YouTube exec: So what clips exactly do you want us to remove?
20 MPAA: well all those which we don't want you to publish.
30 YouTube exec: Ok, which clips exactly do you object to.
40 MPAA: all those we don't want you to publish.
50 GOTO 10

Relax

[Timesprout]

Its in Beta.

This should improve content dramatically

[nizo]

Once all that illegal content is gone, it will make it easier to find things like this.