RIAA wants your fingerprints

SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
edited June 2004 in Science & 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

  • LawnMMLawnMM Colorado
    edited June 2004
    To be followed shortly by retinal scans and the invention of the phaser
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited June 2004
    LawnMM wrote:
    To be followed shortly by retinal scans and the invention of the phaser
    Now wouldn't that be something. ;D
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited June 2004
    I'd use the phaser to go shoot every one of the RIAA execs and lawyers in the @ss too! ;D
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    The only print they're getting is my middle.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited June 2004
    Thrax wrote:
    The only print they're getting is my middle.
    What he said.
  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited June 2004
    Is it April 1st? Do they think anybody would buy the equipment?
  • qparadoxqparadox Vancouver, BC
    edited June 2004
    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!.
  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited June 2004
    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!.

    ;D;D;D;D
  • kanezfankanezfan sunny south florida Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    i'm sure after this fails, they'll try to make it a capital offense punishable by death too.
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