However, there is no YouTube filtering technology. Rather, the paper claims that like News
Corp.'s MySpace, the online video giant has agreed to license content-recognition software from Audible Magic. That would be interesting, considering that Schmidt yesterday described the task of
building and managing copyright protection as being both complex and arduous.
Schmidt's exact words about the technology: "It is not some product you can just build and leave alone."
Was Schmidt bluffing, or has Google decided to abandon what it was working on? Or is Google licensing the technology and having difficulty implementing it? Google may now even decide to buy Audible
Magic.
To a certain extent, Google must have been stalling. The company has been backed into a corner now that media companies are pulling their content from YouTube. The proof would be if Google doesn't have content-recognition software built after months of promises.