YouTube Enhances Copyright Filters
YouTube is working to perfect technology to allow for automatic filtering of copyrighted clips on its website. Interesting allegation mentioned in the article that YouTube purposefully turned a blind eye to copyright infringement in order to build its audience and enhance its acquisition price. That strategy may have worked. Google paid $1.76 billion to acquire YouTube 11 months ago.
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The transaction was an all-stock deal valued at the time at $1.65 billion.
Is it reasonable to assume that a video sharing site would immediately become a haven for pirates? To get a robust copyright filter in place within two years of the company’s initial launch is pretty amazing. Consider that this tech that we take for granted now was COMPLETELY new in 2005.