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Hollywood has a new hero hunting down video pirates By ARIEH O’SULLIVAN / THE MEDIA LINE 12/26/2010 11:29 New technology developed by researchers at Tel Aviv University detects pirated clips with what they call a "genetic code." Hollywood’s search for a technical elixir that can curb the billions of dollars worth of lost revenue to people downloading television shows and movies from the Internet may now have a solution that mimics the techniques used to map human DNA. Researchers at Tel Aviv University say they can hunt down pirates by using what they call the video’s “genetic code.” The system is designed to search videos as quickly as search engines seek out texts. Its developers say the technology will let film producers’ trawl the vast ocean of the Internet in the search for video pirates. It works by slapping an invisible grid over the original video and using it to detect changes in color, resolution manipulatio...