http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/ Engadget Comments for Biometrics + RFID = DRM nightmare http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/Dec 19th 2005 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/
This guy needs to be introduced to the "real world".]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/Dec 19th 2005 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/Dec 19th 2005 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/
Mmm, gonna have to give that a big NO.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/Dec 19th 2005 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/Dec 19th 2005 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/however, other then the storage medium/format, aren't there already software/encryption schemes that could handle this sort of thing...]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/
Here's an acronym for you guys: BITE ME.

The day this happens is the day I stop caring about DVD's.
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If they put something like out the market, the terrorist wins.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/Dec 19th 2005 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/Dec 19th 2005 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/Dec 19th 2005 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/Dec 19th 2005 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/Dec 19th 2005 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/Dec 19th 2005 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/Dec 19th 2005 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/Dec 19th 2005 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/Dec 19th 2005 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/
People really need to start being more aware of this concept of purchasing a "license" rather than a product. You pay $15 for a DVD, which is really just a license. Would you pay $15 is that license was no longer transferrable? What concessions will you make and still pay $15?

The entertainment companies realize that we live in a society where people are absolutely incapable when it comes to viewing a product of any sort and saying "I want that, but it is not worth the price." People just don't do that. They either buy it and complain about the price, or they lobby Congress to steal money from the rich people and buy it for them with the loot. The concept of going without is completely unknown. That's why boycotts never work. People think it's a good cause, but because they WANT it, they think their gratification is more important.

I'm a big fan of a consumerist society, but only if the consumers are smart and moral, as well as the producers being smart and moral.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/Dec 19th 2005 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/I think so.

Would this make purchasing a DVD actually purchasing a license to watch it and include restrictions on that purchase to make DVD purchases useless?
Maybe - probably - very likely.

If implemented would it reduce the need to buy a DVD player for each room in your house that has a TV?
Yep.

Would this make consumers hate media companies more and give them more reasons to download media instead of buying it?
Absolutely.

Is this a really good example of rampant dumbfuckery?
You bet your ass.
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What's more, it's all embodied in a cool, wireless mobile media player , the VeriTouch iVue, that protects the identity and privacy of the user, opposite of what Gadh proposes.

Next?

Gary E. Brant, CEO
VeriTouch Ltd. - New York]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/
What's more, it's all embodied in a cool, mobile media player , the VeriTouch iVue, that protects the identity and privacy of the user, opposite of what Gadh proposes.

Next?

Gary E. Brant, CEO
VeriTouch Ltd. - New York]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/
regards
Ray

http://www.thebiometrix.com
http://biometrix.blogspot.com]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/biometrics-rfid-drm-nightmare/
regards
Ray

http://www.thebiometrix.com
http://biometrix.blogspot.com]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:36AM