Manwin and Pink Visual Answer Your Digital Finger Printing/Filtering Questions

it's actually based on binary hashing originally, to circumvent compression technologies which is stripping down an images components by converting RGB to YCbCr format for hash extraction eg

I am not your lawyer, or rather, your company's lawyer. So I am not here to explain DMCA law to you, sorry.

Also, this thread is not about DMCA and why we do what we do.

You guys should just turn off user submitting, problem solved.

Well, it isn't actually pixel by pixel

My question to you is why does Manwin accept this type of content when it's clearly pirated. Or are you simply stating your companies model is to simply hide behind the flawed DMCA law.

Your about to show your true colors here Nathan - Bring it.

May I ask the OP what algorithm they are using to generate their visual hashing db for cross-checking?

And don't come back with "it's proprietary" since all this technology is public domain having been developped by public-funded researchers...

I have all 28 of the major papers describing different ways and each has their major advantages and major flaws....

Just the paper's authors names is all I require

thanks

I am wondering what the point of this technology is if it doesn't seem to be working... I looked at the customer list of the FSC content owners and I am seeing tons of their stuff in full size on your tubes. I thought this was automatic?

If it isn't then what did it fix? What is the point of it?

Uhm, I said "we"... so "we" are too big of a company... You think when I talk about myself I say "we"??

We = Manwin.

Dude.. you just said you work direct with the FBI. I have several on speed dial. That's bullshit.

Allison, something I'm kinda wondering about...
I DO protect my stuff. Been doing it for a while. Haven't had even one of my high res/high quality streams ripped and put up on a pirate site. That's after two years (and dozens of "experts" on GFY telling my it wouldn't work and it would be hacked and blah-blah).

But the ongoing problem still concerns my older stuff that's out there. The stuff I put out on .wmv in the first place and that I foolishly released on DVD. I have to keep removeyourcontent searching for that all the time because it comes up over and over and over.

How does "fingerprinting" help you in that way? For instance...Pink Visual already has a huge DVD catalog out there. And tons of stuff that has been pirated, I'd dare say your entire catalog.

I'm assuming that the "fingerprinting" will only have effect on the files that you NOW have had processed (if someone rips one and uploads the "Fingerprinted" one). But everything up until now is still out there (your members areas, your DVD rips, etc.)

Also, it would seem to me that as long as you're still releasing hard copy DVD's and not taking measures to keep your content in the members area on the paysites...then any of the thousands of bit torrent, rapidshare, megaupload, fileshare, and tubes that don't play by the rules are still going to be pirating you and devaluing your content?

What's your specific strategy for Top Bucks to combat those aspects (which are even more damaging than even Pornhub)?

As a long time affiliate of Top Bucks I'd kinda like to know if there is a chance that I can start converting the sites again.

By the way...does Kevin still own Top Bucks? Last I heard his name was a couple of years ago when he was going to meet some friends of mine down in South America. Just curious if it's still his company and how he's doing. Haven't seen him in person since 2002.