Stupid copy protection: a player with fingerprint authentication. Really.

Furthering the theory that the music industry's business model is literally to treat its customers as criminals: biometrics vendor Veritouch has been demonstrating iVue, a music player requiring fingerprint authentication, to the RIAA. Never mind that known fingerprint scanning technologies were shown to be utter snake oil a couple of years ago — there's always someone desperate enough for a fix. Slashdot plays out the likely scenarios. As does Mac Hall: 1, 2, 3. "I knew we should have just played MP3s."