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BayTSP Content Authentication Platform increases capacity; now scanning one million minutes of online video daily from user-generated content sites

BayTSP has amassed an index of 492 million minutes of video posted to major UGC websites

August 18, 2008, Los Gatos, Calif. – BayTSP, the leading provider of online intellectual property monitoring and enforcement services, announced today that its Content Authentication Platform (CAP) is capable of scanning up to one million minutes video on user-generated content (UGC) and other video hosting sites daily.

BayTSP also announced that it has indexed 492 million minutes of video previously posted to UGC sites. This catalog provides insight into historical trends relating to posted copyrighted content, user activity, keywords and metadata.

“The greatest challenge in monitoring user-generated content sites for copyright infringements is scaling to accommodate the hundreds of thousands of videos uploaded daily,” said BayTSP CEO Mark Ishikawa. “Processing one million minutes daily allows us to monitor all of the major UGC sites in the U.S. and worldwide.”

CAP, announced in 2007, provides content owners with a turnkey solution that incorporates multiple digital fingerprinting and watermarking technologies and allows them to monitor, manage and generate additional revenue when their content appears online. CAP offers content distributors the opportunity to identify copyrighted content and deliver highly targeted advertising.

“Other standalone fingerprinting and watermarking systems are limited to what the UGC sites give them in search results,” Ishikawa said. “Our index – with nearly half a billion minutes of indexed video, gives our customers valuable insight into past trends on where the content has appeared, how often its been viewed and who the most prolific uploaders are.”

BayTSP in April announced a joint field trial with NTT using NTT’s Robust Media Search technology as part of the CAP system. NTT’s RMS technology includes video and audio fingerprinting. Previous generations of its media search technologies have been deployed in Japan and China for broadcast monitoring, music discovery services, and ring-back tone billing systems for mobile subscribers.

BayTSP is testing fingerprinting technologies developed by four other partner companies and will begin integrating them into the production CAP service later this year.

“With CAP, content owners get access to multiple video and audio fingerprinting and watermarking technologies,” Ishikawa said. “This increases the likelihood of identifying content and eliminates the risk of getting locked into a single technology.”

About BayTSP
BayTSP, founded in 1999, provides online copyright monitoring and enforcement services for the entertainment industry, software and videogame makers and the publishing industry. The company has its headquarters in Los Gatos, California. For more information, contact (408) 341-2300 or visit www.baytsp.com .