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Google could be rolling out some form of copyright detection for YouTube as early as next month. The release timeline comes from one of Google's attorney's who is defending the company against Viacom's $1 billion [copyright infringement lawsuit][2] against YouTube.
In pretrial hearing Google's attorney told the judge that the company was working "very intensely" on a video recognition technology and hoped to release it sometime in September.
The AP [reports][1] that the technology in question has been described as a means of fingerprinting digital files, supposedly as "sophisticated as fingerprint technology used by the FBI."
However Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, has previously said that the copyright protection technology for YouTube would **not** be designed to filter out and block pirated content, rather it would "somewhat automate" the process by which content owners can flag illegally copied videos.
So has Google changed its plans for the filtering service? At this point no one outside Google knows for sure, but it certainly sound like what the lawyer described would be capable of blocking uploads.
When asked for a comment, a Google spokesperson backed off the September release date saying, "we hope to have the testing completed and technology available by some time in the fall, but this is one of the most technologically complicated tasks that we have ever undertaken, and as always with cutting-edge technologies, it's difficult to forecast specific launch dates."
[1]: http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/07/27/Google-plans-YouTube-antipiracy-tool-for-September_1.html
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/03/the_morning_reb_5.html
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