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.'"

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Amazon Mechanical Turk

[InvisblePinkUnicorn]

That would be the ultimate mechanical turk - sitting around watching youtube videos all day and getting paid... in addition to what you are already being paid as you put off work to watch youtube videos all day.

Re:Hard AI ftw

[utopianfiat]

It's not going to get shut down because of copyright infringement. :/ That's like saying we should bomb Hong Kong because they sell copyrighted works there- just because something has an illegitimate use doesn't make it illegitimate on face ffs.
Note, this can also be applied to "kitchen knives can kill so we should ban kitchen knives." and "people can die in cars so we should ban motor vehicles"
and uh... "People who have killed a lot of people have played video games, so we should ban video games." The states needs to get over the damn prohibitionist culture that's removing any sense of personal responsibility from our great nation.