Today is the day for goofy geek news, it seems.....But this one is just too bleepin' stupid beyond words. If something like this ever came to pass, it would be the death-knell of the music industry. Certainly people ultimately might accept required biometrics for airports and banking (maybe!) but to play a song (or, by extension, movies or any other expensive copyrighted stuff) on their systems? Over our collective law-abiding dead bodies they will.
The best line from this short article: "Since Veritouch already supplies security authentication systems up to Homeland Defense standards (in partnership with an Israeli defense contractor), we do forsee exciting synergies ahead, should budget cuts force the War on Terror and the War on Piracy to be consolidated into just the one unwinnable "wa.r" Truer words were never spoken. :) -rick RIAA wants your fingerprints http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/04/biometric_drm/ < snip > Established biometric vendor Veritouch has teamed up with Swedish design company to produce iVue: a wireless media player that allows content producers to lock down media files with biometric security. This week Veritouch announced that it had demonstrated the device to the RIAA and MPAA. "In practical terms, VeriTouch's breakthrough in anti-piracy technology means that no delivered content to a customer may be copied, shared or otherwise distributed because each file is uniquely locked by the customer's live fingerprint scan," claims the company. iVue has been developed in partnership with Swedish design house Thinking Materials. Since Veritouch already supplies security authentication systems up to Homeland Defense standards (in partnership with an Israeli defense contractor), we do forsee exciting synergies ahead, should budget cuts force the War on Terror and the War on Piracy to be consolidated into just the one unwinnable "war". -- You are a subscribed member of the infowarrior list. Visit www.infowarrior.org for list information or to unsubscribe. This message may be redistributed freely in its entirety. Any and all copyrights appearing in list messages are maintained by their respective owners.
