[IP] RIAA wants your fingerprints
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From: EEkid@xxxxxxx
Date: June 6, 2004 11:38:44 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RIAA wants your fingerprints
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".
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