RIAA Wants Your Fingerprints

[aweirdguy]

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".

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

[maquereautin]

So what, EVERY song that is recorded will have its own security thing? that wont take long to crack. The Apple AAC security code was broken within 2 days i think, but it didnt take long. And do they plan on making it a law that every company that makes music storage devices have this on them? that wont happen.
Another thing is its not worth it to them to mass produce all these units, and people wont buy them. who is going to buy one? no one. i wouldnt want somthing that i need to scan my thumb on every time i needed to use it.
No one will want to stand there and wait for the stupid thing to tell you if your allowed to listen to the music or not. what if i lose that thumb? "too bad i guess, better go buy back all 4GB of music you owned"( or how ever much you have on your comp) i dont think so. They are getting richer and richer, and more desperate.

[fetus]

goodbye kazaa...sniff....

[aweirdguy]

yea too bad my wife and kids cant listen to the music i buy anymore either right? oh baby im gettin in line to buy this crap....

amazing the fine line between "publishing rights" and "publishing wrongs" lol

dont worry, its hard to say how long prints will be considered secure:
fingerprints copied with gummi bears (http://news.com.com/This+hacker%27s+got+the+gummy+touch/2100-1001_3-915580.html)

[maquereautin]

i was going to put a quote on the end of that post but i couldnt remember it, but i think i got most of it now: "The more bombs they drop on us, the closer we are to victory"--Ho chi min. in other words, they are getting more desperate to win the fight.

[xeno]

would u have to pay more to use it at a party/ disco? they got some crap coming out huh....

soon we will need a serial key to open a song but i doubt it it sounds stupid even to a stupid person...

[king]

dat's the dumbest thing i ever heard. can i use your thumb my ipod wont work?(lol) wat company would buy this stuff