Article: A software escalation in piracy fight Companies start to clamor for content-recognition systems

Brad Stone and Miguel Helft
International Herald Tribune
02-19-2007
As media companies struggle to reclaim control over their movies, television shows and music in a world of online file-sharing software, they have found an ally in software of another kind.The new technological weapon is content-recognition software, which makes it possible to identify copyrighted material, even, for example, from blurry video clips. The technology could address what the entertainment industry sees as one of its biggest problems songs and videos being uploaded to the Web without permission.Last week, Vance Ikezoye, the chief executive of Audible Magic in Los Gatos, California, demonstrated the technology ...

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