US Firm Introduces Fingerprinting Technology For Digital Pirates
New York-based media monitoring firm, Competitrack, has introduced the latest weapon against piracy in the form of its video fingerprinting technology for policing online video piracy and copyright infringement.
The system is targeted at video sharing websites like YouTube and Metacafe to help them avoid unlawfully displaying copyrighted materials and uses a combination of rack-mounted hardware and client software.
The technology uses advanced digital pattern recognition technology and can locate content from movies, music videos, television programmes, and even B-roll. The company says full motion and still video clips each have their own unique fingerprint of sound and light patterns that are detectable with advanced software algorithms.
Competitrack claims its system is superior to other fingerprinting technology because instead of analysing just the audio or closed caption portion of a video track, the system identifies both sound and video luminescence patterns on a frame-by-frame basis. In addition, the system generates few false positives and is fully automated, which greatly reduces resource allocations and staff involvement.
Even quality of the pirated content appears not to be an issue. Grainy, low quality, and even resized and bitrate-converted formats have been properly detected in current client implementations, the firm said. Competitrack claims to be able to detect pirated content with clips as short as five seconds long, and no audio is required at all.
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Wowww!! Biometric Technology has become highly advanced in the last few years. Pirated movies and piracy issues has been a huge problem for the hollywood industry and just last month Elton John blamed the whole internet for the music piracy problem.
Competitrack has finaly come up with a good solution, I believe. They produce a unique fingeprint technology and it is different from others because it reads and detects the audio and video fingerprints.
It is amazing that how far has fingerprint technology gone. I bought a fingerprint reader for my computer, from a reputable company called M2SYS Technology . The fingerprint reader served me well and it comes with a cool fingerprint software called Desktop Biometric Suite which provides multiple function like password managent, file encrytion & decrytion, mulitple fingerprint registration etc. With this so far I had not tentions in the last few years.
I am assuming that Competitrack, has similar concept, it encrypts and decrypts video and audios and determines their fingerprints. I am sure with such solutions it wil decrease the piracy issue and will enhance the added secuity for copyrights.