Big Brother YouTube
A test of software designed to cut down on unauthorized posting of copyrighted videos to YouTube will begin testing next month.
My very rudimentary understanding of how this will work is that more huge databases will be compiled of videos and their respective copyright authorizations. The software will automatically check uploaded videos to see if they are in the database, and then appropriate action - or no action - depending on the copyright authoriztions in the database.
Since this is just being tested, we haven’t heard anything about the long term plans for the software, but I’m curious as to whether any individual could have their copyrighted videos palced in the database or if this will be reserved for large media corporations which own thousands of copyrights each.
And if this works, I can see eventually placing all of this in the hands of the copyright office, which, after all, already has copies of all registered material. And if all material posted to YouTube was also run through government hands, the governement could compile even more databases of people “of interest” in the “war on terror.”
Large databases scare me, no matter what their ostensible purpose.
June 20th, 2007 at 9:52 am
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