Google’s anti-piracy YouTube tool in September
Google Inc. aims to deliver in September a long-awaited and much-promised technology to combat piracy in its YouTube video sharing site. During a hearing Friday in the copyright-infringement lawsuit that Viacom Inc. filed against Google, a Google attorney told the judge Google was working “very intensely” on a video recognition technology, the Associated Press reported. The technology will be as sophisticated as fingerprint technology used by the FBI and Google plans to roll it out in the fall, “hopefully in September,” attorney Philip S. Beck of Barlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP told U.S. District Judge Louis L. Stanton, according to the AP. Fall runs from late September to late December.
Viacom sued Google in March in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleging copyright infringement from YouTube and seeking US$1 billion in damages. The video recognition technology will allow copyright owners to provide a digital fingerprint that within a minute or two will trigger a block from YouTube whenever someone tries to upload a copyright video without permission, the AP reported. Google is collaborating with “some of the major media companies” in experiments with video-identification tools and is “excited” about the progress so far, the YouTube spokesman wrote. Google officials have acknowledged that the company is working on a system to deal with copyright videos uploaded to YouTube without permission, a nagging problem that has earned Google many enemies among TV and movie companies. What do you think, is it even possible to recognize copyright protected video from all other garbage?
Source: AP, PCworld
Hi there.
Yes (as a programmer) it IS possible to recognize copyrighted material.
There are several ways to do this, but there are workarounds.
if youtube can cap the god damn 10 minute limit they can do anything. god damn YOUtube.
I think you can remove the cap by signing up as a Director account or something. (Because you can see some videos are over 10 minutes).
Isn’t this gonna hurt Youtube? (to some extent).
no there is no fucking way to catch it
fucking utube
I can understand if they want to stop full episodes of a show on youtube (but who watches them anyway?). If they are after small clips from shows and performances, they are really stupid by not seeing how much free publicity they get for it.
There are ways to recognize it. MySpace has a pretty good system for recognizing copyrighted music being uploaded to the site.
As a programmeri say it is possible to by-ass this. altering what u want to upload
I’m wondering how they would pull this off. If the major companies would include some kind of signal into their feeds, be it audio or video (like a BLIP or a not visible code) it will get distorted if people use shitty and different video encoders. Sometime this will get figured out too (be it audio or video watermark) and programs will spread to circumvent this and cut it out.
If they are thinking of a more sophisticated fingerprint solution with real recognition what is really uploaded (voices analyzed, picture - this must be Friends episode) - WOW!
screw youtube…….chucknorristube…..round-house kick video’s to the face
considering most of what i use youtube for is to show family guy clips to people lol i think i wont be visiting as much after this comes in.
Someone out there (I’m looking at you, piratebay) will make a YouTube clone specifically for pirated materials. I think if Google would’ve never purchased YouTube this wouldn’t have happened.
this will def hurt youtube. i also only watch youtube for funny clips of family guy simpsons etc. if all these clips are gone who the hell is going to watch home videos???????
who watches whole movies on youtube anyways??? if this technology works prob 90% of the content would be deleted, what good are you then Youtube. Bye bye youtube, hope $1,600,000,000 was worth it!!!
youtube obviously wants to kill their site. there are dozens other similar sites with no limitations, so …
Imagine if it does work, what will it lead to? Major Media companies armed with advanced recognition software! Something about that just doesn’t sound good lol
If this really works, I do believe youtube will lose a fair bit of popularity. I think many will move to other sites that don’t have censor shit.
Grrrrr…
@lquid…
That’s EXACTLY what it means… doesn’t matter anyway Windows 7’s DRM suite will be made up of Advanced Image Recognition software… all vid will be screened through a chip with the OS only allowing what IT thinks is a authorised video to be shown.
Anything that programmers can come up with to put INTO a video, “anti-programmers” can come up with a way to take out, given time.
In my opinion it is possible but very hard. there is a technology that is employed by Canon, using a hardware attached to the camera each picture is given a signature code based on many aspcets. this code is saved on the picture and if the picture is ever modified a new check of the picture will give you a different signature code and you would know this is not the original picture or it has been modified.
On the same principal if they can trigger the capture based on certain requirement (if the audio hits a cetrian level, if picture is brighter than a certain level), get the code and compair it to their data bank and if it matches something in it then that is probably a copy protected video or a flagged one.
This is one way of doing it, the signature code can be generated based a video clip not a picture or a combination of video and audio.
The limitations include if the vieo is encoded, audio is out of sync, if it is a camera capture of a movie in a theater. also the video owners have to be willing to compile signature code lists of all their movies and give them to google for their data bank.
Its just how i would do it, lets see how google does it
I’m not much of a programmer or a video expert, but I do believe they will find a way to keep 90% of the copyright infringement off youtube.
Take 1 million people holding 1 million cups. We can figure out who is who. I mean sure its more complexed with videos, but if you were being sued for 1 billion you would find a way.
They don’t need to include a hidden signal into the material - each and every video already has instantly recognizable patterns. A 10 second grab from say the new “Simpsons” movie, whether captured by a hand held camera or ripped from DVD is, to anyone with eyes and a brain, instantly recognizable and easy to remember. Recognition technology needs to be able to effectively read these patterns and match them to a database - implementing the database and making it work is the big job. But, it is clearly feasible - and, the recognition technology could be made foolproof. The only way to spoof the technology would be if you changed the film and made it unrecognizable - then it would be useless. Copyright owners would have to register their films.
youtube ?
movie-/musiccompany-tube will soon fit the description much better.
im tired of the web 2.0 hype anyways, who cares.
Blu-ray and HDDVD have great copyright protection. If THEY were able to keep consumers from copying digital media they possess, than youtube should be able to at least keep it off their website.
Oh… wait…
This will bite them in the ass for sure, there are tons of other sites that don’t/won’t have the censorship.
fucking big companies.. i can understand the combat against full episodes what when 10-40 second clips get pulled down its bullshit… i look up funny gags from family guy all the time even people who make music videos with tv show clips or compilation clips with suffer because that somehow infringes on copyright… i mean how is the common man meant to get permission from say BBC to make a doctor who compilation video????
so this software will in turn fuck up you tube, i mean people who have their favourite song as an intro to a video long might be banned because infringement… where the fuck does this end???? dont you love corporations fucking over the little guy you tube is a great way for the average person to show themselves to the world, promote their favourite shows which is for free… but nope viacom was clearly losing too much money from this… what fucking bullshit….. what a shitload of fuck…. fuck balls…
hahahaha…..anti piracy tool!? OKayyyyyyyyyyy everytime an anti-piracy tool comes out 24 hrs. later someone comes up with a workaround. Youtube at one time was a fun place to visit now that Google owns it they are slowly destroying it.
“”"”"”That’s EXACTLY what it means… doesn’t matter anyway Windows 7’s DRM suite will be made up of Advanced Image Recognition software… all vid will be screened through a chip with the OS only allowing what IT thinks is a authorised video to be shown.”"”"”"”"”
Wow, I am glad I like Ubuntu Ultimate 1.4 so much. Just need to install Linux MCE.
Eric Wilson
“There are ways to recognize it. MySpace has a pretty good system for recognizing copyrighted music being uploaded to the site.”
Obviously you dont know what your talkin about because ive attempted to upload copyrighted material as my own and have done it, all they do is check the file name you give. If the file name somewhat resembles a artist/song together you will be denied, other than the name checking myspace doesnt have shit