YouTube Filtering Is On-Line

ghostcorps writes "After months of promises to IP-holders, the long-awaited filters system for YouTube has gone online. The new system will make it easier, the company claims, for copyrighted clips to be removed. 'YouTube now needs the cooperation of copyright owners for its filtering system to work, because the technology requires copyright holders to provide copies of the video they want to protect so YouTube can compare those digital files to material being uploaded to its website. This means that movie and TV studios will have to provide decades of copyright material if they don't want it to appear on YouTube, or spend even more time scanning the site for violations.'"

Comments

Opt Out!?

[monk.e.boy]

God I hate opt out. Imagine you produce films and TV, then google suddenly says "Yeah, it's all on YouTube by default. But you can opt out using this huge complex time consuming method."

Is this evil?

I mean, isn't anything where you get spammed by default even if there is an opt out option, evil? I know this isn't spam, but it must be pretty annoying for some people (like the BBC who I help fund through my TV license.)