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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Do you ever wonder why your hard drive sometimes spins like crazy even if you’re not doing anything with your computer? Halloween is still 9 months away so don’t suspect that this is another ghost story. However, the reason behind that mindless spinning can be equally terrifying.

We all know that malware usually works behind the scenes. No self-respecting virus author would expose his work to any third-rate anti-virus software. So in order to increase the life span of his creation, he would develop it in such a way that it could run without being noticed.

Fortunately, no bad deed goes unnoticed. There are many ways by which you could detect the presence of unwanted applications without resorting to a laborious full-system scan.

If your hard drive is working overtime without you demanding anything from it, then chances are is that it’s working for somebody or something else. A virus or a malicious code may have been inserted in your registry which instructs your system to do needless loops, or worse, perform destructive functions.

Be very observant when you’re using your PC. If it slows down, try rebooting. If it still runs at a laggard pace, then run your anti-virus and check if your system is clean.

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