Google YouTube to test a new system to detect pirated content on their service

Google YouTube to test a new system to detect pirated content on their service

Google has said that they are scheduled to start testing a new system on their YouTube service to detect uploads of unauthorized film and video clips.

Google owned YouTube service is facing a series of lawsuits related to pirated media uploaded by their users.

Viacom’s USD 1 billion lawsuit is one of them and the company is hoping that their system would help them stay away from similar lawsuits in the future.

Google said that their new system would be tested by Time Warner and some additional unnamed content owners.

The company added that if the system works successfully, it would enable the content owners like movie studios to automatically remove protected material from their YouTube service.

Standard & Poor’s analyst Scott Kessler had this to say about the whole saga: “The key issue is not only how well [the video ID system] will work, but how it is perceived by the various constituencies involved. One of the potential problems is that Google and YouTube may not have the same standards of success as the copyright holders themselves.”

Industry experts added that the system would help Google in the long run as they would also be able to detect similar media uploaded on their servers by the end user. They would be able to use the system to remove duplicated files and save on server space.