Biometric anti-piracy media player with fingerprint technology

VeriTouch Ltd unveiled the iVue Personal Media Player for demonstration to several major US record labels as well as the RIAA and MPAA. Anyone that purchases the player will be able to listen to the protected content only after they pass a scan of their fingerprint.

The iVue is the first wireless media player designed to provide biometrically encrypted and secured content for customers, both professionals and consumers. The patent-pending technology ensures that any music, video or video game delivered to the customer may only be played on the iVue after a successful fingerprint scan on the player. 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. "We view the iVue as the first viable tool for the music and film industries to protect their valuable intellectual properties from piracy," stated Gary E. Brant, CEO of VeriTouch, "With massively popular file-sharing networks like KaZaA and Morpheus, the only true solution will be encrypting content at its origin, and protecting all further distribution through secure playback devices like iVue."

Sorry, the
flaw I see in this right now is that customers don't want to have to pay for a technology to "help" the record companies fight piracy. We don't want any DRM as far as that goes. Devising and marketing a gadget like this is illogical. Not to mention the fact that using a fingerprint may raise hairs on privacy advocates necks.

Source: Music Industry News