YouTube Selects Filtering Software

The Mercury News has learned that Google will use technology from Los Gatos-based Audible Magic. That company’s software was mentioned in the U.S. Supreme Court’s Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios vs. Grokster ruling as evidence that file-sharing services could keep pirated files off their networks.

While I’m all for stupid media shooting itself in the face, let’s hope it doesn’t splatter blood on smart media. If Audible Magic’s filtering inconveniences legitimate YouTube content publishers in any way, YouTube is in trouble.

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February 24, 2007 | Filed Under Video 

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  1. 最新ニュース配信 on February 25th, 2007 12:34 pm

    YouTube…

    ネットの最新ニュースを配信しています。…

  2. Pirate Bay Launches YouTube Clone on May 19th, 2007 10:16 am

    [...] Torrent tracker The Pirate Bay laughs in the face of all the copyright trolling nonsense that plagues YouTube. That’s why their new streaming video sharing site, The Video Bay, will probably not honor frivolous DMCA takedown notices so zealously. They certainly won’t be one of Audible Magic’s DRM customers. [...]

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