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RFID Tags for Digital Rights Management

Posted by Zonk on from the gone-tracking dept.

mathemaniac writes "RFID Journal is running a story about a group of researchers at UCLA working on a new RFID application that would provide consumers a means of watching DVDs of movies as soon as they hit the theaters. It could also be used to address one of Hollywood's biggest concerns: piracy of digital content. The group is researching a method of using RFID as a tool for digital rights management (DRM), wherein technologies are employed to protect media files from unauthorized use."

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  1. This has some possibilities... by ErikTheRed · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hopefully, they'll use 40-bit encryption and rely on a proprietary algorithm as the principal means of ...

    What do you mean it's already been done?

    Oh well, back to the drawing board.

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  2. You gotta be kidding me by Lifewish · · Score: 5, Funny

    RFID and DRM? Are they trying to send every geek on the planet apopleptic or something?

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    1. Re:You gotta be kidding me by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 4, Funny
      Sounds like a schema to get rid of piracy to me:
      1. Release a DRM scheme based on RFID
      2. Announce it on /.
      3. All geeks (including those pirating movies) suffer heart attack and die
      4. Profit!
  3. Simpler solution: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Release the movie on a regular DVD as soon as it hits theaters. There's a guy down the street from me who is already using this business model, and it seems to work.

  4. Forumalic Post by Monkeman · · Score: 3, Funny

    [obligatory "Big Brother" reference] [obligatory out of place Microsoft flame] [obligatory Soviet Russia Joke] [more 1984 references] [link to funny picture] [link to Goatse] [gung-ho "revolutionary" idea] [flaming MPAA/RIAA] [more Microsoft flaming]

  5. Re:Pr0n example by Omega1045 · · Score: 4, Funny
    I'm surprised that movie industry is not following up how pr0n industry can be so successful and profitable.

    The pr0n industry is successful because guys like tits.

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  6. DRM underwear? by No+Such+Agency · · Score: 3, Funny

    Fruit-of-the-Loom wants you to buy new underwear, so, they turn off the authentication for your year old undies. Now, your washing machine will not run with these undies present.

    A true hacker would take a brute force approach and wash his or her undies by hand.

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