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YouTube Video-Fingerprinting Due in September
Tech.Luver writes "The Register is reporting on Google's statement to a presiding judge that video-fingerprinting of YouTube material will be ready in September. The development is required to head off a three-headed suit against the company, currently being debated in a New York City courthouse. The system will, according to Google, 'be as sophisticated as fingerprinting technology used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.' From the article: 'As Google told El Reg in an earlier conversation, the company already has two systems in place for policing infringing content - but neither are ideal. One system allows copyright holders to notify Google when they spot their videos on the company's sites. When notified, the company removes the offending videos, in compliance with the American Digital Millennium Copyright Act. A second system uses "hash" technology to automatically block repeated uploads of infringing material.'"
I've posted numerous video clips to Google Video and YouTube. I have recently received 3 e-mails from Google telling me that I have been flagged by the copyright holder. Subsequently I have already stopped using Google Video.
The Newman link is from 2001.
The judge who decided the original Llera-Plaza motion, which is discussed and critiqued in the following article, reversed himself on March 13, 2002, holding that expert evidence of a "match" was admissible. Judge Pollak had granted the Government's motion for a reconsideration that is mentioned above, and he also reopened the record to hear additional testimony for the prosecution as well as for the defense. In reversing himself in a 60-page opinion, Judge Pollak stated, in part, "In short, I have changed my mind.' The Reliability of Fingerprint Evidence: A Case Report
You'll find links here to many articles on Identification Evidence. For example: Phenotype vs Genotype: Why Identical Twins Have Different Fingerprints
Um, no. A carrier passes traffic. YouTube hosts content. A big difference.
Sure it is. So is the heliocentric model of the solar system, Einstein's theory of special relativity, and quantum electrodynamics. It's just one of the best tested, best supported, and most theoretically fruitful theories we have.
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Philips has a video fingerprinting system. From the site:
The system is robust against severe degradations like low bit rate video compression, scaling, rotation, cropping, noise addition, median filter and noise removal. [...]
A 5 second video fingerprint on any segment of video content is sufficient to uniquely identify that segment.
You obviously need more than a simple re-encode to get around that and I'm sure Googles system won't be fooled by simple tricks either.