RIAA wants your fingerprints

manadren_it · Post by **manadren_it** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 6:13 pm

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

RIAA wants your fingerprints
By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco (andrew.orlowski@theregister.co.uk)
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 (http://www.thinkingmaterials.com/). 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".

Do you think it will catch on? ®

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manadren_it · Post by **manadren_it** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 6:17 pm

Wow, I've always wanteed the RIAA to know exactly who I am and what I buy! Maybe they will even send me targeted advertisements based on the music I buy! And they already have my finger prints ready for the police if I tried to crack the drm to play a song on something other than their special approved players! *cough*

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 9:25 pm

Simply put, if Al queda would of striked the RIAA headquarters, the US would not be in iraq right now, because there would be no reason to have war.

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sintekk · Post by **sintekk** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 12:32 am

I can't wait for a future where you just walk by a camera, and a smiling hologram pops up and says, "Hello there! Your MP3 player has sent us a notice that you are listening to an unauthorized MP3. The police are now after you! Have a nice day!"

http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/1369861

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 1:31 pm

lol. I seen that movie before, it's pretty cool.

But it would be scarry if it would be possible!

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