MySpace says Pirated Videos are Good!

[gxsolace]

MySpace this week announced that instead of taking down copyright-infringed videos that its users upload, it would instead launch a new technology to take advantage of piracy, and profit.
Using technology from a company called Auditude, MySpace plans to

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[FrozenGpu]

Piracy FTW!?!?!?!??!

 

[Tindytim]

[citation][nom]FrozenGpu[/nom]Piracy FTW!?!?!?!??![/citation]
So it seems.

 

[JonnyDough]

Either I'm daft or just a bit confused...this article sounds like it's using a fingerprinting tech to get rid of illegal videos. Must have been a copy and paste from some real news site with a bad retitling job.

 

[WheelsOfConfusion]

[citation][nom]JonnyDough[/nom]Either I'm daft or just a bit confused...this article sounds like it's using a fingerprinting tech to get rid of illegal videos. Must have been a copy and paste from some real news site with a bad retitling job.[/citation]
What I got was that they'll be searching for user-uploaded copyright-infringing videos, and then display targeted ads with them instead of taking the videos down.

 

[Guest]

Basically they are combating the piracy issue by saying "Do what you want we will still get paid" which basically will increase piracy but not hurt investors "bottom line".

 

[gm0n3y]

I assume that they must have some sort of revenue sharing agreement with the movie studios etc.