connecting*the*dots

Mariano: “Mark, I really hope you read this message in particular because I think you are in the wrong on this one. How can you say that Google is crazy for buying YouTube? There is one very big element here you are ignoring, and it is technology. Technology that knows something that is copyrighted from something that isn’t. Do you remember the early days of Google Video? When Google used to record live television and make it searchable using telecaption? What makes you think that they ever stopped recording ALL of live television? You see, by recording ALL of live television, they create a database, and any video uploaded could — and most likely will — go through a filter that automatically detects if this video is a COPY of a live TV feed recorded by Google. You see, Google is quite possibly the company with the most advanced A.I. on the planet. And the fact that you cannot comprehend this bewilders me.”…