online.wsj.com — To deal with the mounting copyright issues swirling around video and other content online, a start-up founded by some respected Silicon Valley executives is taking a novel approach: combing the entire Web for unauthorized uses. the system scans billions of pages on the Web for clients' audio, video, images and text.
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heffaeDec 19, 2006
Don't worry remember in the US copyright only protects corporations with more money that God. After all can you imagine the financial ruin that a Multi Billion dollar company like Disney would face if I were to use Micky Mouse on a web page without permission./sarcasm
spiffytechDec 19, 2006
I've known of a service that scans billions of pages for text I think is copyrighted, but I usually call it Google.
aliengoodsDec 19, 2006
@foobar5892Why would they weed out false alarms? Under the DMCA, they can have your ISP turn off your connection and there is little you can do about it. This will just end up screwing legit websites.As a side note, I see more and more potential in offshore hosting. Does anyone know of any good ones?
vegangDec 19, 2006
Is anyone else tired of hearing about the crusade against Ebaum's World? Who cares. Get off your soap box.
dwhitbeckDec 19, 2006
Sort of a private Echelon?
joesnowDec 20, 2006
"... a system to scan the billions of pages on the Web for clients' audio, video, images and text -- potentially making it easier for owners to request that Web sites take content down or provide payment for its use."/begin overreaction (maybe?)/so if i repost some technical documentation on my blog, it'll scan that text and flag me?so if i just so happenn to post some text that I derived from my brain and some tech worker claims it as their own "idea" in a location on the web that I'll never visit anyway, I'll be flagged?how will this bot or set of bots know where content 'actually' originated from? (i mean the text content)w/ video and audio i can maybe see some spec of justification, but with text? that'll be a disaster to the whole of web 2.0 concept....now that we've encouraged you to post and repost, and edit and mash up and repost again, this information that you happen to find useful on the net, we're gonna unleash the matrix to hunt down your content and flag it as copyright material that you need to cease and desist existence of on your website?or did i miss something./end overreaction/ty
burritovisionDec 20, 2006
I believe that this may be in violation of the 4th amendment. Not all web pages are intended for general public use.