Frustrated by the efforts (or lack thereof) of YouTube to curb the blatant violations of copyrights held by media giants NBC and Fox, these companies decided to do it all by themselves.
Invitations started going out yesterday and there is still room for signing up as a beta user direct from hulu.com. Users will have access [...]
NBC Fox launch Hulu.com: If you can’t sue them, imitate them
“Claim Your Content”: Google’s New Filter for YouTube
Google CEO, Eric Schmidt assures a new system called “Claim Your Content” which will automatically identify copyright material in an attempt to decrease the “massive intentional copyright infringement” allegations on the video-sharing site YouTube.
Microsoft recently asserted that Google’s pending acquisition of DoubleClick may be a threat to fair competition and Schmidt did not lose any [...]
Adobe Photoshop CS3 Tools for Photo Authentication
Adobe Systems’ Advanced Technology lab has developed two tools for image authentication. Clone Tool Detector, which determines whether a section in a picture, has been recopied from another part of the picture. It is difficult to predict if two images are cloned, but this tool will say if they are “improbably similar”.
Truth Dots, determines [...]
The Simpsons on MySpace or The Simpsons on YouTube
Currently, News Corp. owned Fox shows, such as 24 and Prison Break, are available on the News Corp. owned social networking portal, MySpace. There is speculation that the media giant is planning collaboration with multiple media companies to establish an online video platform to compete with YouTube.
MySpace is the no.1 social networking site in the [...]
