The world’s best online hangout MySpace is offering trial free indexing to any content producers who want to block users from uploading their copyrighted clips. The technology has been licensed from an acoustic fingerprinting company dubbed Audible Magic Corp. The technology works around the system that employs video clips scan and checks for signature vectors in seconds.

Until now, MySpace as well as other famous video sharing sites had policies to block the copyrighted material but they did the same after receiving any complaint from the content producer. Users were at ease while posting the copyrighted content. Even if they were spotted, they did it under some different login. MySpace said it would block unauthorized music videos and other clips containing Universal Music Group’s music. For MySpace, video filtering is about protecting artists and the work they create.

Recently, Universal Music accused MySpace for illegitimately cheering its users to share music and music videos on the site without permission. That lawsuit is still pending and seeks unstipulated damages, totaling up to $150,000 for each unauthorized music video or song posted on the site.

Via: techCrunch