Give Your DVD Player The Finger

sebFlyte writes "Wired is reporting on some scary new DRM tech being developed. From the article: 'At the store, someone buying a new DVD would have to provide a password or some kind of biometric data, like a fingerprint or iris scan, which would be added to the DVD's RFID tag. Then, when the DVD was popped into a specially equipped DVD player, the viewer would be required to re-enter the data.'"

Comments

Re:THEY WANT TO PUT YOU IN JAIL BY DEFAULT!!!!

[shmlco]

because we might copy

Unfortunately, many people do copy them, and there's no way to tell the honest people from those less so. Locking up my house and car and setting the alarm every time I go someplace is a major inconvenience too, but it's a price I'm forced to pay to keep the thieves out.

Want no DRM? Simple. Just stop copying that to which you're not entitled. Piracy disappears and companies stop wasting millions of their dollars on DRM.

I'm not holding my breath, though...