Dailymotion Announces Full Implementation of INA Technology for Detection of Copyrighted Video

Dailymotion announced full implementation of INA’s “Signature” technology across all localized and local language Dailymotion sites. Dailymotion’s use of video filtering technology follows several other copyrighted material protection initiatives throughout the site, including a hashing system, blocking videos that have already been removed from the site and use of an audio fingerprinting solution. In addition, Dailymotion is an original signatory to the UGC Copyright Principles. (PR)

UK Internet body opposes policing role

The body representing internet service providers has cast doubt on the viability of government proposals to make them responsible for identifying and punishing illegal music and video downloaders. “ISPs are no more able to inspect and filter every single packet passing across their network than the Post Office is able to open every envelope,” said the Internet Service Providers’ Association. (Financial Times)

Digital watermarking worth $500m by 2012

MultiMedia Intelligence has reported that applications leveraging content identification technologies such as digital watermarking and fingerprinting are growing rapidly and could surpass $500 million worldwide by 2012. Key applications include Internet and broadcast content monitoring, metadata association, copyright control, content protection and forensics, and interactive advertising. (Advanced-Television)

DRM Is Dead, But Watermarks Rise From Its Ashes

With all of the Big Four record labels now jettisoning digital rights management, music fans have every reason to rejoice. But consumer advocates are singing a note of caution, as the music industry experiments with digital-watermarking technology as a DRM substitute. Analyses of watermarked traffic can be done with "forensic precision," and that the results could give the music industry hard evidence of copyright music transiting specific internet providers' networks. "It gives them the ability to put pressure on policy makers and ISPs to do filtering," said Fred Von Lohmann, an Electronic Frontier Foundation attorney. (Wired)

ATT and Other I.S.P.’s May Be Getting Ready to Filter

At a small panel discussion about digital piracy at NBC’s booth on the Consumer Electronics Show floor, representatives from NBC, Microsoft, several digital filtering companies and the telecom giant ATT said the time was right to start filtering for copyrighted content at the network level. “What we are already doing to address piracy hasn’t been working. There’s no secret there,” said James Cicconi, senior vice president, external & legal affairs for ATT. (NY Times)

FCC to Investigate Comcast's Alleged P2P Throttling

The Federal Communications Commission will investigate complaints that Comcast actively interferes with Internet traffic as its subscribers try to share files online, the commission’s chairman, Kevin J. Martin, said Tuesday. Comcast denies that it blocks file sharing, but acknowledged that it was “delaying” some traffic between computers that share files. (AP)