Veri Scary 'fingerprint' player

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Inspired, quite possibly, by RIAA boss Mitch Bainwol's interesting enthusiasm in peddling Audible Magic's dubious p2p 'filter' around vongress, two more companies want the music industry enforcer to market their player - which takes virtual fingerprints before it can be used.


Back in mid-January America's VeriTouch biometrics company announced Sweden's Thinking Materials had, "on assignment from VeriTouch," delivered the first working prototype of iVue, a "revolutionary, patented hand held audio/video player capable of biometrically encrypting and decrypting digital media content'.


More to the point, "The authorized user authenticates via a fingerprint and can then use iVue to listen to music and watch DVD-quality videos, including wireless content delivery and connectivity to existing peripheral A/V equipment," VeriTouch says on its web site.


The iVue "eliminates piracy and prevents illegal copies to be made of music, videos, and video games delivered wirelessly or on mini-DVD disk".


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[VAMPYRE BLADE]

No one could be that stupid to give a corportaion copies of their finger prints, which could to used in various ways to pin crimes on a person.