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MySpace has added video-filtering capabilities to its service, making it the largest video-sharing site to proactively block copyrighted material.
MySpace is licensing the technology for the video filter from Audible Magic Corp., BizJournals reports (via MarketingVox).
The system will scan videos and compare them to videos in a database, looking for a digital “fingerprint” that identifies it as copyrighted material. If a matching video is found, it is blocked from MySpace.
Universal Music Group is testing the new filter, and is blocking copyrighted videos, while still allowing UMG artists to share their videos on the site. NBC Universal and Fox are also testing the service.
Rival video-sharing site YouTube, acquired by Google last year, had promised to introduce by year’s end a similar automatic filtering technology, but has not yet done so.
All sectors of the media business will suffer from the weakened economy in 2008 and 2009, with a slump in local advertising particularly hurting newspapers and local TV, according to a new projection from Goldman Sachs.
Broadcast nets will experience…
The New York Times is shuttering its International Herald Tribune site; NYTimes.com will soon host the international news normally reserved for its sister website.
The move is not about cost savings, but rather about growth, NYTimes.com general manager Vivian Schiller…
Unilever’s Vaseline set forth on an unusual research project in a small town in Alaska. Setting up a storefront, the company began giving away free bottles of lotion and asking recipients to name the person who had recommended they come…
Meet the Press, the show hosted by Tim Russert for 17 years before his death last June, is beginning to slip in ratings.
Last month, CBS’s Face the Nation pulled ahead of Meet the Press for the first time in two…
Bloggers collectively create nearly one million blog posts each day, and half of bloggers believe blogs will be a primary source of news and entertainment in the next five years, according to Technorati’s 2008 State of the Blogosphere Report, MarketingCharts writes.…
Wal-Mart and Costco reported same-store gains in September, with sales rising 2.4% and 9% respectively. Sales at Target stores open at least a year fell 3%, writes Retailer Daily.
Below, fiscal results from the discount retail giants:
Sales of food and…
