Bot on way to catch YouTube copyright violators?

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Now here's an idea that is needed, and may already be in the works.

How about a bot that crawls YouTube videos for apparently unauthorized, copyright violations? The type of violations that given the ease of tv-to-PC digital transfer are easy to commit?

Such as video clips of tv shows, such as "Lost?" Speaking of, that's a YouTube "Lost" clip at the top of this post.

There's a few ways this could be facilitated.

First, television programmers and movie studios might want to either imbed a digital video watermark inside their content that could be machine-readable by copyright-violation sniffer bots they would search YouTube with.

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