SubscribeYouTube to start filtering copyrighted contents
Posted in IPTV, News on June 14th, 2007. By Maren Hermans.
Eagerly awaited by the film and television industries as well as by copyright owners all over the world, Google announced its development of Video Fingerprinting: a technology that is able to detect copyrighted material and block unauthorized uploads to YouTube.
Tired of hunting pirates on their own, copyright owners were since a long time demanding a solution from YouTube and Google. First tests of the content protection program that Google proposes will soon be made with Walt Disney and Time Warner.
What is definitely one more step in the problematic issue of copyright on the Internet, let also many questions rise: Will it really work? How is it going to be applied? And of course a major issue: How is this going to change YouTube? Forcing pirates back into their bay, this copyright protection system will surely change YouTube’s content. Will this in turn change Youtube’s viewers? But then, the question is how long the bay will be a secure place for a pirate. The example of the fight and frustration of television stations in Australia (Via Digg), ‘a nation of pirates’, as described by Peter Wells, shows that there are still many battles to fight.
Co-written with: Eduard F. Vinyamata
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