Identity Systems will soon roll out software that lets media companies from music to movies search through unstructured text on the Internet to identify piracy.
The software called “Unstructured Data Module” applies analytics and algorithms to scan for hidden relationships in streams of digital data. Beyond information found in traditional databases and spreadsheets, the software digs into e-mails, file directory listings, search results for peer-to-peer (P2P) sites, and lists of top downloaded songs on Web sites, a company executive said Wednesday.
Today, the music industry and movie studios work mainly from neatly organized structured data files. But as the move to digital music accelerates and opens new channels, the industry must work in nontraditional formats to find the slightest variation in song titles and artist names as part of copyright compliance.
“The music industry has a pervasive challenge because song titles and artists’ names can be among the hardest to match when the data set is large,” said Ramesh Menon, Identity Systems’ North American operations director. “We’re finding more and more that music societies and publishers are seeking this type of solution as a critical part of copyright compliance.”
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(Beyond information found in traditional databases and spreadsheets the software digs into e-mails file directory listings search results for peer-to-peer (P2P) sites and lists of top downloaded songs on Web sites a company executive said Wednesday.)
The software diggs into emails? Ummm… I think that would be a case of privacy invasion (Unless your using your works email) but if you using yahoo gmail msn ect. and these companies use this software to scan emails then I’m sure they will get a load of law suits on thier hands!
Copying of information will never stop. If it does stop there will be a bloody revolution and the holders of power capital and income will not be in power after the war is finished.