August 23, 2008

Video Pirates Beware!

A startup called Anvato ... I'm still not getting used to all the weird names people choose for their new web ventures ... is launching a new video search service that helps publishers find copyright-infringing videos online.




The Mountain View, Calif. company says it uses “perceptual signature” technology that works like the human eye, identifying scenes, objects and movements in a video without requiring any digital watermarking. Cool, could save time, sweat, and money for all of us big web video/tv producers!

Limiting its search to programs aired during prime-time on just one broadcast network during the last six months, Anvato claims "it already found 2,000 infringing videos." Cool - if yours wasn't one of them! (I won't tell you about mines if you don't tell me about yours ....)

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