Wired News: Give Your DVD Player the Finger
This is all about how "University of California at Los Angeles engineering professor Rajit Gadh is leading research to turn radio frequency identification, or RFID, tags into an extremely restrictive form of digital rights management to protect DVD movies."
Obviously, the content providers (i.e. movie studios) think the consumer will put up with literally anything to get access to their product. I mean, first you have to go buy an entirely new DVD player so that you can play their DRM-crippled disks, and then everytime you buy (or rent) one, you have to give up your privacy by giving a fingerprint (how long before police agencies start trolling those records for wanted persons?), and then you have to give your fingerprint again before it will play.
My question is, who's funding this moron? Who in hell actually believes people will put up with this crap just to watch "Jackass the Movie" or some such crap? The "content providers" need to just look at the falling theater revenues and get a clue -- we don't need your crap. If you lock it up like this, we just won't buy it. And then what will you do to buy your floozies and nose candy?
Posted on July 17, 2005 04:10 PM