On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 13:31, Risto Treksler wrote: > the obvious problems with fingerprinting is that > - it can't work for newly aired shows and
True. > - it relies on someone not poisoning the database > (much like p2p networks have been poisoned with fakes) False. There are several work-arounds for this, including digital signatures of published fingerprints (using a reputation system) and sanity-checking based on existing algorithms. A reputation system would be desirable anyway, as some people would do a better job of getting seamless cuts. > - it couldn't hope to cover nearly enough shows to be useful > (or am i being naive) False. You're being naive. If it just gets popular prime time network shows, that's enough to cover probably 70% or more of the shows people really care about. --PC
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