RIAA wants your fingerprints

5 Jun, 2004 at 12:04am ET Article published in Tech

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.

“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.

Source: TheRegister.co.uk

Comments

5 Jun 2004 ~ 12:15am LawnMM To be followed shortly by retinal scans and the invention of the phaser
5 Jun 2004 ~ 12:23am Spinner

LawnMM wrote:

To be followed shortly by retinal scans and the invention of the phaser

Now wouldn't that be something.
5 Jun 2004 ~ 12:31am muddocktor I'd use the phaser to go shoot every one of the RIAA execs and lawyers in the @ss too!
5 Jun 2004 ~ 1:44am Thrax The only print they're getting is my middle.
5 Jun 2004 ~ 1:58am Geeky1

Thrax wrote:

The only print they're getting is my middle.

What he said.
5 Jun 2004 ~ 2:15am bothered Is it April 1st? Do they think anybody would buy the equipment?
5 Jun 2004 ~ 2:21am qparadox R O F L M A O

seriously this has to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard of. Can you imagine a party with this technology?

*Music suddenly stops partway through a song
Music Player: Authorization of music license required, please place finger on the scanner.
Person 1 (stoned out of mind): Hey WTF man, I was listening to that. Why'd you turn it off
Person 2: Duuuude its those darned corporate jerk-offs, they just want all our friggin money. Where is Larry?
Person 1: Duuuuude he's passed out in the kitchen
*Person 2 looks at Person 1
*Persons 1 and 2 go to the kitchen and drag Larry over to the music player
Person 1: Lift him a little higher, move that finger, w000t we gotz it! Rock and rooooolllll baby!.
5 Jun 2004 ~ 5:37am bothered

qparadox wrote:

R O F L M A O

seriously this has to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard of. Can you imagine a party with this technology?

*Music suddenly stops partway through a song
Music Player: Authorization of music license required, please place finger on the scanner.
Person 1 (stoned out of mind): Hey WTF man, I was listening to that. Why'd you turn it off
Person 2: Duuuude its those darned corporate jerk-offs, they just want all our friggin money. Where is Larry?
Person 1: Duuuuude he's passed out in the kitchen
*Person 2 looks at Person 1
*Persons 1 and 2 go to the kitchen and drag Larry over to the music player
Person 1: Lift him a little higher, move that finger, w000t we gotz it! Rock and rooooolllll baby!.
6 Jun 2004 ~ 1:05am kanezfan i'm sure after this fails, they'll try to make it a capital offense punishable by death too.