RFID Tags for Digital Rights Management

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."

Comments

RFID is evil.

[Anonymous Coward]

DRM is evil.
Movie companies are evil.
It seems UCLA is evil, too.

RFID Disks & Players == BAD IDEA

[ArielMT]

I live an hour from anywhere, and the only DVD player I have is my PC. I got tired of Windows long ago and put Linux on it, and it plays my DVDs without problems.

Now these liberal-indoctrinated college pinheads, naturally believing piracy to be bad, but without understanding the real problem, are telling me that I'll have to buy a TV set and "RFID-enabled" DVD player just to watch a movie that I pay good money for? All in the name of stopping piracy?

Wrong answer. It is not the end that justifies the means, Hollywood and college kids. It's the means which must justify the end.