MySpace bid to block copyright clips

The popular online hangout MySpace said today it will experiment with a video filtering system designed to block clips containing copyright materials.

MySpace is licensing technology from a firm called Audible Magic, which late last year obtained rights to a system for scanning video clips and looking for signature vectors – such as a unique digital fingerprint – to compare with vectors stored in a database. Video can be blocked from appearing on MySpace when there is a match.