MySpace unviels software to catch pirated videos

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NewsCorp’s popular social networking website MySpace, has finally unvieled a new software designed to prevent users from posting copyrighted videos that has been requested to be taken down by its authors.

“TakeDown StayDown”, as the software is called, prevents users from misusing the network and the videos. Any video that has been requested to be removed by its authors, and have been done so, cannot be re-posted.

MySpace currently has some other software to catch people uploading copyrighted music files.

Another useful feature is “ContentTakeDown”, as the name suggests, by which authors can request removal of their content.

MySpace has been in the news recently, having reached agreements to buy out popular photo-sharing site, Photobucket.

Side thoughts

This makes me wonder - if MySpace can do it, why not video-hosting sites like YouTube, which is entangled in multi-billion dollar lawsuits with Viacom and the like? Surely, Google has the technology required to put such a system in place.

But then again, it challenges the very idea of freedom of sharing content on the internet, that has caught on like wildfire and become popular, even as torrent clients and pirate sites are being taken down.

Maybe we are never destined to see such wonderful services as MySpace and YouTube being used in the right spirit, without any enforcement