Anyone want to bet that, a year or two from now, we'll be reading that "the kids" prefer listening to sped-up music?
Also, I object to The Waitresses being labelled "one hit wonders". The author apparently forgot about the ubiquitous holiday song "Christmas Wrapping".
Re:Experimenting with the YouTube audio fingerprinting system
by alx on Sunday April 19, 2009 @07:20AM
(#569334)
Really interesting reading, to learn how Youtube build its signature, and the get the works-for-all solution: increase your copyrighted music speed by 5%, ingenius :)
Re:Experimenting with the YouTube audio fingerprinting system
by kwamenum86 on Sunday April 19, 2009 @12:30PM
(#569523)
"Apparently they don't really care about repeat infringers"
I would be careful about operating under this assumption. Google's habit of locking out accounts across all of their services is well-documented. You wouldn't want that to happen over something silly.
Re:Experimenting with the YouTube audio fingerprinting system
by zandorg on Sunday April 19, 2009 @03:01PM
(#569651)
As I keep saying on HN, if people hosted 9mb clips on their own webserver, with Flash video streaming technology, there would be no way of censoring it.
Not quite off-topic, but related is: Can you currently stream Flash video off an Apache webserver? If not, would a startup writing a plugin for it be a good opportunity?
Re:Experimenting with the YouTube audio fingerprinting system
by queensnake on Sunday April 19, 2009 @12:31PM
(#569525)
Eh - what's the bet some do-gooder Googler reads HN and lowers the thresholds / throws in some more types of checking, and it's an arms race, and this person will have just helped them to improve. Still, /someone/ had to do it.
Re:Experimenting with the YouTube audio fingerprinting system
by zemaj on Sunday April 19, 2009 @10:12AM
(#569416)
Great read! It would be nice if someone tested if 5% increases in video content also get through. I wonder if this will lead to a new generation of piracy on YouTube,
Anyone want to bet that, a year or two from now, we'll be reading that "the kids" prefer listening to sped-up music?
Also, I object to The Waitresses being labelled "one hit wonders". The author apparently forgot about the ubiquitous holiday song "Christmas Wrapping".
I would be careful about operating under this assumption. Google's habit of locking out accounts across all of their services is well-documented. You wouldn't want that to happen over something silly.
Not quite off-topic, but related is: Can you currently stream Flash video off an Apache webserver? If not, would a startup writing a plugin for it be a good opportunity?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_video_fingerprinting