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Old 12-10-2010, 04:34 PM   #57
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Originally Posted by Clodfobble View Post
I had been told that YouTube has a scanning algorithm (that of course they will not admit to as it would be proprietary) that can match any uploaded video against a database of copyrighted data, thus weeding out at least a certain number of the copyright violations without the need for a human to view each one. Flip the image, and it no longer matches.
Margaret Gould Stewart discusses it here on TED:
http://www.ted.com/talks/margaret_st...copyright.html
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