Biometrically Verified Music Delivery
 

This is getting ridiculous by the minute. It's almost official now, according to RIAA/MPAA : EVERYBODY IS A PIRATE

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/04/biometric_drm/


RIAA wants your fingerprints
By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Published Friday 4th June 2004 21:36 GMT

Not content with asking for an arm and a leg from consumers and artists, the music industry now wants your fingerprints, too. The RIAA is hoping that a new breed of music player which requires biometric authentication will put an end to file sharing.

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".

sony signed a sonic fingerprint deal with audiblemagic in similar attempt to lock down content. i wish could say the people won't stand for it but recent observations give me pause. banking customers seem to have no problems inking thier thumprints on the front of checks to "protect against fraud" while ignoring the real criminals who run the banks. it wouldn't surprise me to see shoppers in wallyworld putting up with something like this riaa scheme to "keep prices falling," while steadfastly overlooking the crooks in the riaa and congress who pilfer thier pockets.

it's our job to save them from thier own apathy. :CG:

- js.