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Originally Posted by Robbie
Well then that is cool. If it doesn't need to do anything at all to the actual vid but can just find it no matter what.
Still going to not be effective at all against the thousands of sites that aren't going to play by the rules as far as "switching out" videos for 3 minute trailers. 
But it's definitely going to be effective for Top Bucks in regards to their content on Pornhub for sure. And for others who sign up for it, it will also work well in the Pornhub instance.
Where is all the load hitting anyway? Wouldn't PornHub have to have some video on file for instance to "replace" the offending video? Or how exactly does that work? Somehow Pornhub's server is working as well to replace the vid whether it's grabbing it from a content server or not, right?
So for this to work...the "hunter" server finds the offending vid. Then the pirate site has to be involved in the project and has to have a piece of the software configured on their server too to communicate and "replace" the pirated vid?
Or does it work via a pre-configured list that Pornhub will have inside the piece of software that they will have to put on their server?
Damn. No matter how you cut it, that's a lot of stuff going on there and is gonna require pirate sites to come onboard (which would be awesome if they would)
Seems like the digital fingerprinting would better be used to hunt and dmca and then to throw a flag if the video did not come down so you can follow with legal action...
And that sounds familiar...like something similar to what's already being done...some guy at remove your something or another...can't quite remember... |
The FSC APAP program does both hunting and protecting at the same time.
You use a windows (or mac or server) app to create fingerprint data for a video of yours, and that app sends the data to Vobile to store in their database.
Then our tubes, every time someone uploads a video, creates the fingerprint data for a video, and sends it to Vobile. Vobile checks if it can find a match for this and returns an answer to us. This does not mean the whole video has to be there! You can fingerprint a 40 minute clip, and even a 3 minute section out of it will be matched to it! They also tell us what kind of length of a video is approved by the content owner, or if a specific video should be used instead of this one and so on...
CURRENTLY though, since the replacement things are still being worked out together with Vobile and FSC, we simply do not release the video if it is matched.
THIS part of the service is totally free to FSC members. (We pay for it on the tube level unless we replace the video with a promotional one.)
ADDITIONALLY to this, Vobile also SCANS, currently, 16 tube sites, and are looking into adding non tube sites too as far as I know. What they do there is actively download the new videos from the tubes which were not yet scanned and match it against their database. Once they find a video, they will DMCA it for you automatically, or show it in the admin for you to do so manually.
This active scanning is what costs FSC members around 450 USD (I think?) a month for a set amount of fingerprinted videos.
We ourself for example currently fingerprint around 50 of our newest clips only, for testing. If it works out, we might fingerprint all of our clips. The price at that point is a per-minute price of video content fingerprinted.