LOS GATOS, Calif., Aug. 9, 2007 (KGO) - While you may spend time on YouTube for fun, there are some people who watch it for a living. In Los Gatos there is a worldwide Internet security company that makes sure copy-righted material like movies games or software doesn't end up on the web or your computer.
These people are watching YouTube and every other website in the world that might have pirated material which can be downloaded by an Internet user.
Mark Ishikawa, CEO Bay TSP: "We have every major entertainment and every major copyright holder pretty much in the U.S. uses our services."
That may sound like a boast but CEO Mark Ishikawa says it's not. Bay TSP is in Los Gatos; the TSP stands for track secure and protect.
Because of Bay TSP's presence on the Internet, they say they catch anywhere from 12 to 18 million people who are infringing on copyrighted material on the Internet every single day.
On you tube for example using a combination of an automated video fingerprinting program and these workers called video hashers they can identify miscue of their clients material. The movie industry alone lost $6 billion dollars to piracy in 2005.
Mark Ishikawa: "We have video technology that goes out and crawls these sites looking for key words and meta data. Then we apply our video technology system against them the video technology says I recognize a piece of this video then it goes into human validation."
If one of these hashers verifies that there is an infringement the website is notified to take it down. Ishikawa says they can identify the pirated video or game. They can also id the pirate their provider and the user name or names that downloads the data. Sometimes bay tsp is the first to respond when a pirate offers up clip or movie. Ishikawa says YouTube infringements have gone way down due to their work. Bay TSP can be called internet investigators or plumbers
Mark Ishikawa: "We identify when it's leaking where it's leaking, and we immediately go through and work on that leakage."
The company started back in 1999and has 111 eleven employees here in Los Gatos. Over the past eight years they say they have prevented the movie industry from suffering the copyright problems the record companies continue to have.
They do that with servers shown here which they installed all over the world including china where much of the movie pirating is done. Ishikawa says if you pirate or download they will get you.
These people are watching YouTube and every other website in the world that might have pirated material which can be downloaded by an Internet user.
Mark Ishikawa, CEO Bay TSP: "We have every major entertainment and every major copyright holder pretty much in the U.S. uses our services."
That may sound like a boast but CEO Mark Ishikawa says it's not. Bay TSP is in Los Gatos; the TSP stands for track secure and protect.
Because of Bay TSP's presence on the Internet, they say they catch anywhere from 12 to 18 million people who are infringing on copyrighted material on the Internet every single day.
On you tube for example using a combination of an automated video fingerprinting program and these workers called video hashers they can identify miscue of their clients material. The movie industry alone lost $6 billion dollars to piracy in 2005.
Mark Ishikawa: "We have video technology that goes out and crawls these sites looking for key words and meta data. Then we apply our video technology system against them the video technology says I recognize a piece of this video then it goes into human validation."
If one of these hashers verifies that there is an infringement the website is notified to take it down. Ishikawa says they can identify the pirated video or game. They can also id the pirate their provider and the user name or names that downloads the data. Sometimes bay tsp is the first to respond when a pirate offers up clip or movie. Ishikawa says YouTube infringements have gone way down due to their work. Bay TSP can be called internet investigators or plumbers
Mark Ishikawa: "We identify when it's leaking where it's leaking, and we immediately go through and work on that leakage."
The company started back in 1999and has 111 eleven employees here in Los Gatos. Over the past eight years they say they have prevented the movie industry from suffering the copyright problems the record companies continue to have.
They do that with servers shown here which they installed all over the world including china where much of the movie pirating is done. Ishikawa says if you pirate or download they will get you.
