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NEC Unveils Super Accurate Copyright Infringement Detector, Our Hearts Sink

by Amar Toor on May 7, 2010 at 02:50 PM

NEC's Copyright Infringement DetectorFew things in life are more annoying than spending 20 minutes scouring the Web for some obscure film clip, only to find out that the golden fleece you've been desperately sniffing around for has been blocked, due to copyright infringement. Party off. Well now, the good folks at NEC have just introduced a sparkling new piece of draconian software that can scan thousands of clips in the blink of an eye, and accurately smear any innocent or doe-eyed YouTube clip as a cancerous, copyright-infringing parasite faster than you can say 'MPAA.'

All the new system needs is about two seconds worth of video to flag copyrighted material -- with alleged 96-percent accuracy, it sounds a false alarm once every 200,000 samples. As Engadget mentions, the system is perceptive enough to even pick up on bootlegged videos that have been copied from digital to analog, or have had captions added. The process, which has been approved by the internationally standardized MPEG-7 Video signature tool, extracts unique digital signatures from a given YouTube clip, and then compares them to the signature of the original material to detect any differences or alterations. Since the signatures occupy only 76 bytes per frame, it doesn't take more than an average, at-home PC to scan roughly 1,000 hours worth of video in one second. Meaning, of course, that if you hate online fun and everyone else who has it, this is the thing for you. [From: Engadget]

Tags: copyright, copyright infringement, CopyrightInfringement, MPAA, nec, samples, top, web, youtube

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