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".

Do you think it will catch on?



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I'd buy one just so I could smash it into tiny bits.

a waste

yea I saw that yesterday... they have finally gone off the deep end. Instead of using the internet to make millions they instead try to fight a losing battle and spend millions..

When the record companies start going bankrupt then they can owe it all to themselves. However something tells me they won't be going bankrupt anytime soon, fucking thieves they are.

I have aready given my figer prints countless times:(

thats just bullshit
people wont stand for it

It would be cracked within hours

Nice idea but as always they are only thinking of themselves who the fuck will ever use one of those ???

Kick back watch it crumble
See the drowning, watch the fall
I feel just terrible about it
That's sarcasm, let it burn

I'm gonna make a toast when it falls apart
I'm gonna raise my glass above my heart
Then someone shouts "That's what they get!"

For all the years of hit and run
For all the piss broke bands on VH1
Where did all, their money go?
Don't we all know

Parasitic music industry
As it destroys itself
We'll show them how it's supposed to be

Music written from devotion
Not ambition, not for fame
Zero people are exploited
There are no tricks, up our sleeve

Gonna fight against the mass appeal
We're gonna kill the 7 record deal
Make records that have more than one good song
The dinosaurs will slowly die
And I do believe no one will cry
I'm just fucking glad I'm gonna be
There to watch the fall

Prehistoric music industry
Three feet in la brea tar
Extinction never felt so good

If you think anyone would feel badly
You are sadly, mistaken
The time has come for evolution
Fuck collusion, kill the five

Whatever happened to the handshake?
Whatever happened to deals no-one would break?
What happened to integrity?
It's still there it always was
For playing music just because
A million reason why
All dinosaurs will die
All dinosaurs will die
All dinosaurs will die

Its like drugs, it will always be there. Somebody will invent a way around it just like they also do with radar detectors...

yeah, it just sounds redundant

:321GFY fuck them

They already stepped over the line with those cd's that you cant play in a computer. If i buy a cd I should be able to play it wherever the fuck I want.

Do you guys remember when BETA died and the VHS storm hit? Remember how they tried to implement Copy Protection? If you tried to copy one of those VHS tapes your copy would be nothing but garbled images and crappy sound.

Today, I can still copy VHS tapes.

'nuff said