YouTube Using Digital Fingerprints to Check for Illegal Videos.

Google intends to launch a new technology in September, in order to begin a massive copyright filtering on YouTube.
According to the lawyer of Google, Philip S. Beck, YouTube is working intensely with major content companies on video recognition technology that is as sophisticated as the fingerprint technology used by the F.B.I.

This system was described by Beck as a recognition technology relying on digital fingerprints that copyright holders would provide to YouTube to help filter out illegal uploads. Once the fingerprint is in the system, YouTube’s software would be able to recognize and remove it within minutes.
This change will help Google to end the complaints from companies like Viacom.

“Perhaps the filtering mechanism will help. If so, we’ll be very grateful for that,” said Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., a lawyer for Viacom.

Viacom filled a lawsuit in March, against Google, sustaining that the Mountain View, Calif. software company intentionally committed massive copyright infringement of Viacom’s properties. The big company is sought more than $1 billion in damages, in addition to an injunction that will prohibit Google/YouTube from further copyright infringement. Following, Google replied by denying that it had done anything illegal.