Miamacs - 12:36 pm on Jun 15, 2007 (gmt 0)

Sure, but isn't this pure propaganda again? The quarterly report telling "doing what we can".

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If the video has some hidden value direclty recorded from the broadcast - like captioning, or showview codes, you know the code that tells your VCR/DVD when to start recording... or whichever - they can look for that. But if you re-encode a file to be so plain it hurts, that "fingerprint" or whatever gets lost.

I read the other day that not long after we brought up the possibility here on WW, they've started trying to identify shows by their audio stream. ( No connection though. ) That's a better, and a more credible idea. They've probably found out most of the shows by a simple speech recognition software that's available for like what... $200?

Video recognition ( as in an AI telling what / who's on the video ) is sci-fi. It's in the works, but no-one is there yet. Not even still images can be disassembled with a good accuracy, even though shapes are recognized, the emphasis of shapes within shapes is a problem. ... not to mention that with some creative lighting ( not all shows are recorded in studios ) it's not that easy to recognize shapes either.

And as the very same thread, which replied to the very same quarterly propaganda stated... it's not Google who's going to invest in a multi-billion space-age security and intelligence project. Not Google, not for DowntheTube, not to please stockholders that they're doing what they can to not get sued again and again.

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