rwinn, thanks for checking our platform and for your patience waiting for the results. It's great to know your experience and the results you got (or lack of those :P). We'll check it and get back to you with some news.
I know you didn't ask for this, but I took the liberty to run the video you asked for through our data and here are the results [0]. As you can see, pretty decent amount of them found across many different sites. These results look much more impressive for massively viral videos, but even this paints an interesting picture.
Impressive results! Even where the original is distorted and mixed with other videos it's detected. I take it you use a different technique than spotter?
Thank you. Can't comment on their technology as I have no idea what are they using. Our service is very complex environment that consists of many different parts and pieces. We run at a huge scale (many thousands of servers) and indexed more than 4B videos. That allows us to do what you see above.
We struggled with that, but it was the only way we found to provide a fair and good service. You can check an example report on our dashboard (https://dashboard.spotter.tech). Check Psy video for example.
This is purely anecdotal, but I live in Florence and know a couple of people from the "old-money" families and they are not rich by todays standard. They make a modest living renting out and managing the properties handed down through the generations and have to be frugal to make it work.
Also, you should be very sceptical of any study made using Italian tax records as a data source :D
> They make a modest living renting out and managing the properties handed down through the generations and have to be frugal to make it work.
Those rich real estate owners are not frugal because they need to. They are frugal because they are smart. Don't judge their wealth before seeing their tax haven bank accounts.
If anyone is looking for these as usable fonts I found this french designer Gilles Le Corre - http://www.gilleslecorre.com/pages/fonts.html - who makes a lot of fonts based of old manuscripts and books.
btw, you have a typo in the learn more section, the readme link ends in .mg