Programming/Spidering
 

If anyone has any ideas how I can be of service to monitor these illegal sites, let me know. Scraping data and thus monitoring websites is my specialty.

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Are you looking to provide a free service, or do you want to get employed to create some kind of anty-pricacy monitoring service/software?

Scraping data?
 

Are you also a programmer?

I would have to say monitoring tube sites for stolen video would be a massive undertaking as automated scanning would be next to imposable.

Tube site rename videos , change the size etc.. pattern matching which is what a spider would have to do based on those basic properties would fail.

I, myself, and a team of guys from the U of Chicago, in the 90's developed image recognition software to detect colors, facial features etc... This method could work but I expect the hardware, software costs would be enormous, not to mention the bandwidth bills to monitor these tube sites for content. (You may remember Lycos who licensed this software, they were the first to AI images, so no it was not Google or Yahoo)

I have created algorithms that can be used to detect duplicate images, so grabbing a screen shot of a video and comparing it to what you have is possible but again you would have to process the entire video frame by frame.

Another option which would have a very large overhead would be do download the new daily videos or log the URL's and spend the day looking for your stuff with human eyes. Again not very effective.

So no offense guy but I doubt you could offer up a reasonable solution on a programming level that would be of any real use.

I wrote a similar spider and found that writing a spider isn't hard, but making it commercially
successful by actually detecting what want to detect is a lot harder than I thought.