[FYI] Biometric DRM is 'empowering' says iVue maker

["Axel H Horns" <axel.h.horns@gmx.net>]

<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/11/biometric_drm_interview/>

Biometric DRM is 'empowering' says iVue maker
By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Published Friday 11th June 2004 20:26 GMT

How do you understand a man who wants us to use biometrically 
generated keys before we can listen to our music?  

Gary Brant's company VeriTouch will soon be marketing a media player 
called iVue, which will ensure that no music is ever shared again. 
The iVue uses your fingerprint to generate a unique key when you buy 
music online, and you can only play that music back once your 
fingerprint has been verified by the machine using this key. It's a 
brilliant idea! Newsletter  

As it turns out we simply couldn't get indignant or righteous with 
Gary over his quixotic adventure, and that's not just because he's a 
very nice man. It's because over five hundred Register readers 
spelled out exactly how they might use it, when we asked.  

"I'm guessing there wasn't one in favor?" Gary asked us, a bit 
nervously.  

Well, no. Not one.  

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