Through its ContentID system, which recognizes the music used in any video — whether a professional film or a wedding party with the bride's favorite song playing in the background — YouTube can split some of the ad revenue with the song's copyright owners.
Using the app, they can select the device they use to access it - phone, tablet, laptop or desktop - how long they access it for, whether they browse web pages or view a video, and whether they access the internet via wifi or the 3G mobile network.
Mr Ford's lawyer, Dennis Morris, earlier told the Toronto Sun: "We're just trying to see whether or not such a video exists and whether or not any video has been doctored or altered".
Players will find themselves doing unusual things for a video game: deciding whether to wear a dress on a date, whether to drink beer and smoke pot at a party, or whether to kiss a boy and let his hands roam Jodie's body.
That unsatisfactory state of affairs should soon be alleviated by the introduction of a video referee, but whether Dankert will personally be allowed to benefit is doubtful.
This week on nytimes.com, PLAY, the New York Times's sports magazine, presented a video debate on whether Tiger Woods is the greatest athletic performer in history.
Mr. Romney and his allies have already accused the president of inappropriately turning the anniversary of the raid on Bin Laden's Pakistan camp into a partisan attack by releasing a video that questions whether Mr. Romney would have authorized the raid.
Passengers on flights from Heathrow in London to Northern Ireland, for example, are photographed at check-in, and their photograph is encoded on their boarding pass so a video screen shows whether the person who checked in is the same one arriving at the departure gate.
An examiner measured range of shoulder rotation of each subject beforehand and checked via a video camera monitor whether or not the subject reached the end of internal or external rotation.
Another solution which might become widely available is authenticator software, which can scan a video and determine whether it was forged or not.
