Another Day With My PC

The blog post that I’ve written about YouTube’s reluctance to regulate the uploading or downloading of videos in its Web site hasn’t even seen its first sunset yet in my page when the news that the Google subsidiary has started to implement a new video identification technology went out.

Hand in Hand 

Time Warner and Walt Disney will be teaming up with the embattled video-sharing Web site in the project. If the program goes well, copyright owners would be able to detect illegal uploads of their videos.

Although I’ve given a paragraph about this on my previous article, the tone that I’ve given to it was quite skeptical. Let’s face it. YouTube’s popularity skyrocketed when surfers discovered that it was a haven not only of homemade videos, but also of Hollywood-produced ones. You can’t blame people then for entertaining the suspicion that the Google company would really be hesitant in testing any kind of technology that would prohibit its clients from uploading or accessing protected contents. But, then again, it’s still too early to put that halo above YouTube’s head.

I hope that other video or file-sharing Web sites, such as Limewire, would also implement a similar technology in order to protect copyrighted products. Don’t get me wrong. I’m all for the free circulation or sharing of information on the Internet. However, I’m also batting for the respect of the rights of the companies or people who created them.

Going the Extra Mile 

Aside from creating a fingerprinting technology in order to detect unauthorized uploads or downloads, I wish that they would also come up with an innovation that would warn users beforehand that the file that they’re downloading contains a malicious code or content. I wouldn’t want to see my PC conk out on me because the file that I’ve downloaded raided my Windows registry. But I’m not rushing them. Besides, what are registry cleaners and antiviruses for.

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