Digital fingerprints, more like smudges

Om Malik, Friday, June 8, 2007 at 12:06 AM PT Comments (0)

Audio and visual fingerprinting of copyrighted video is seen as the best way to combat infringement, but in NewTeeVee’s testing this week across multiple sites, it did not work. We were surprised to be able to upload multiple times the exact same copyrighted file, even after we explicitly told the hosting site and the fingerprinting provider about it and they took it down. Continue Reading.

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