The Google-YouTube filter picture just got a little blurrier … after months of insistence by YouTube that it was developing an in-house filtering/anti-piracy solution and continued comments to that effect by Google since it acquired the nascent video-sharing site, the San Jose Mercury News is reporting a hook up with Audible Magic. That’s the Los Gatos company that News Corp. signed with for MySpace digital fingerprinting of audio.
From Elise Ackerman’s article: “Neither YouTube nor Audible Magic would comment on the deal, which has not been publicly announced. The Mercury News spoke with two sources familiar with the deal who were not cleared to comment officially about it. … In an interview with the Mercury News last week, Vance Ikezoye, chief executive of Audible Magic, said it takes ‘a few days at most’ for a site to begin filtering.”
— Audible Magic is working on a video option that could be ready later this year. But the audio and video solutions can only be as good as the database used for matching, making it less 100 percent effective even if the technology is spot on.
Update: YouTube’s response to my query: “We don’t comment on details around proprietary or third-party technology.”
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