YouTube Introduces Antipiracy Filters

October 18th, 2007

Google is offering new details about YouTube copyright-protection initiatives first leaked to the media in February. Dubbed YouTube Video Identification, Google’s new beta technology, released Monday, aims to help content owners identify pirated videos that community members upload to the site.This type of technology is the online world’s answer to demands on the part of content owners to protect copyrights in the wake of rampant illegal uploads. MySpace, for example, is licensing technology from Audible Magic to screen videos that social networkers upload to the site.

“Video Identification is the next step in a long list of content policies and tools that we have provided copyright owners so that they can more easily identify their content and manage how it is made available on YouTube,” YouTube Product Manager David King wrote in the company’s blog on Monday.

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