MySpace to launch video filtering system.
The popular online hangout MySpace said Monday it will experiment with a video-filtering system designed to block clips containing copyright materials.

Posted 2/12/2007 7:55 AM ET
By Anick Jesdanun, The Associated Press

MySpace is licensing technology from Audible Magic, which late last year obtained rights to a system for scanning video clips and looking for signature vectors — such as a unique digital fingerprint — to compare with vectors stored in a database. Video can be blocked from appearing on MySpace when there is a match.