An attorney for video-sharing site Youtube told a US district court that the company is near the final stages of deploying a system to filter out copyrighted content. According to the Associated Press, Youtube attorney Philip S. Beck told a New York court that the system would be in place "hopefully in September." The system would reportedly use digital fingerprinting technology to compare user-submitted videos to copyrighted materials and filter out violations.
Youtube reportedly has been working on a filtering system since before last fall's acquisition by Google. Last February, speculation flared up again after Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said that a system would be put in place "very soon". Those rumours picked up even more steam when it was reported that the company was working with DRM firm Audible magic to develop a system to digitally "fingerprint" user-generated content.
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