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Give Your DVD Player The Finger

Posted by Zonk on from the hilarious-double-entendre dept.

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.'"

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  1. So much for the element of surprise by gotroot801 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    So if I want to buy my cousin a DVD for her birthday, I'd either need to bring her with me or chop off her finger? Marvelous!

  2. Not even an option by raider_red · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I think I'd just give up watching movies completely, and read more. There's no way I'm providing biometric data for something I should have fair use rights to in the first place.

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