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Schmidt Says YouTube 'Very Close' to Filtering System
cnetfeed writes "Google CEO says an automated system will soon be available to track pirated content and prevent it from being uploaded to video sharing site. The system was supposed to be rolled out as early as last October, and the long delay in brining the technology online has resulted in ill will from companies like NBC and Viacom. 'Network executives accused Google of stalling so YouTube could reap the big traffic that professionally-created shows generate. Viacom filed a $1 billion lawsuit against Google last month and accused Google of massive intentional copyright infringement. "Ah Viacom," [CEO Eric Schmidt] Schmidt said. "You're either doing business with them or being sued by them...we chose the former, but ended up the latter." Schmidt took the opportunity to poke fun at Microsoft's assertion that Google's pending acquisition of DoubleClick may be a threat to fair competition. Other companies, including Yahoo and AT&T have also asked regulators to review the transaction closely.'"
This is great! Google has automated a way to look at videos and determine if they match a video that's already in existence and under copyright! That means they've solved a hard AI problem. I hope some day they open source their solution.
Apology to Ubuntu forum.
I ALWAYS brine online. It keeps the whole mess out of my kitchen!
Erm, maybe after they've bought it (DoubleClick) they're going to fire (execute) all of their employees and burn their office to the ground?
And then, replace all of their adverts with Click On The Monkey ads where you really do win something if you Click On The Monkey.
I remember, back in the day, when banner adverts first started to proliferate and I actually tried to win something by clicking on the monkey...
I believe I won some malware.
J1M.
If one can identify whether two streams are similar or not then people won't have to watch the same porn twice!!! Once again google gets close to geeks' hearts.
but the sole controller of the greatest invention mankind ever had since sliced bread
There, corrected it for you. If we are going to make extreme generalizations, at least let's do it right,
Dibs on the domain!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.