That's it, I'm done.

"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."

RIAA wants your fingerprints

Sure, this is more of a scare piece, but it is also so much bullshit. I am a firm believer in IP rights, and I believe that music is covered by them. If you created something, you should have every right to the proceeds.

I think borrowing a cd from a friend and duping it is fine. This is a perfectly legal use. Putting up that same CD on an open server or on an open p2p app is not.

The idea is that the music is sold with an understanding that there will be a few copies made. Hell, if the music is any good, it acts as promotion for the band and sales increase. The main thing is that this is personal word of mouth. No one has 1,000 friends with whom to share the latest chart-topper. At that point it becomes theft. If it wasn't for these bastards we wouldn't be in this mess.

My fingerprints to listen to music or watch a movie? No.

I love a lot of the music on iTunes, but they tell me what I can and cannot do in my own home with music I paid for. They don't get my money.

If the RIAA goes any further in crippling my right to listen to what I have paid for on whatever device I can get it to play on, I will just stop buying. I won't steal. I will just listen to any one of thousands of CDs, tapes and records I already own. If I get real desperate for new music, there are enough indie labels willing to sell me a cd for $10 and let me do whatever the hell I want with it.

(Register article found at slashdot.)

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