Jason Dunn
06-04-2007, 09:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070604-soapbox-re-opens-beating-youtube-to-the-punch-with-content-filtering.html' target='_blank'>http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070604-soapbox-re-opens-beating-youtube-to-the-punch-with-content-filtering.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"MSN reopened Soapbox to the public this weekend after a two-month hiatus while the company implemented a content filtering system on the site. Soapbox now uses a combination of "proactive automatic filtering technology" by Audible Magic and automated tools of its own that will comb through videos uploaded by members. "As a software company, we have a deep belief in the responsible use and aggressive protection of intellectual property and see these as important steps to ensure the viability and success of our user-generated video service over the long term," Rob Bennett, general manager of Entertainment and Video Services at MSN, told Ars."</i><br /><br />As an end-user, content filtering doesn't excite me, but if it results in a video service with less duplicate content, I think that's something of value to the end-user.