The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) sent a report yesterday to members of Congress detailing the extent of likely copyright violations on Google Video.
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The NLPC says that the pirated films have received 22 million views in the past year and that many other copyrighted works continue to show up on Google
Mr. Boehm's letter also points out Google's promise that it intends to install video filtering technology on it video sharing services. "Google has been promising video filtering technology to screen for copyrighted content since at least the fall of 2006," said Boehm. "On July 27th of this year, Google again announced that it would launch a filtering system by September of this year to prevent pirated material from being uploaded to its YouTube video sharing site. As of this Monday however, it appeared that Google still had not implemented the promised technology either for its
Estimates of Internet piracy theft are as high as $2.3 billion in lost revenue to the U.S. film industry.
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