Google Readies Copyright Software for YouTube

It was bound to happen. Given the recent Viacom lawsuit and other hullabaloo surrounding YouTube and the proliferation of copyrighted videos, it was only a matter of time before Google began to work on a way to recognize and automatically eliminate illegal content.

According to the report, by September, “Google will have ‘up, running, and effective’ a new content-fingerprinting technology for YouTube that would resolve the entire copyright issue at the core of the Viacom copyright infringement lawsuit, attorney Philip Beck told the judge overseeing the case in New York on Friday.”

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