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Originally Posted by Penforhire
Most of you haven't had experience with a modern fingerprint scanner. Yes, I imagine some people with palsy or other physical impediments wouldn't be able to use them. But mine required a reswipe of my finger only twice in over a year now!
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Where's the fingerprint scanner kept & used? I've seen them on laptops, which means that they're protected by the screen most of the time, and they're mostly used on tables, not on crowded trains or waved around at the beach or held with one hand while the other holds a sandwich.
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There is always a password work-around.
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Which is what the B&N system is now... what's the password? Do you choose it at download time, or is it based on your credit card? And of course, this method means every device needs a password input system as well as the fingerprint scanner.
My PRS-505 has neither, so of course I'd have to get books from other sources, or read cracked books.
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Besides, how abut a retinal image scanner instead. That probably allows more people, excluding the blind.
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And it'd probably only add $75 to the price of the reader!
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I think Steve is correct. History proves your objections are not going to stop this train. I swore many years ago I'd never use an ATM card for normal retail transactions like groceries.
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This is not a case of claiming "we'll eventually use more tech" but "we'll eventually willingly lock ourselves out of our own purchases."
Some people would; some would not. And the existence of *any* commercially-available readers that don't have the bioscan tech would mean no end, no slow-down, to the current bootleg & cracked ebook exchanges.
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Personally I'd much prefer my DRM keys be based on myself than my devices.
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I prefer no DRM. I don't have DRM on my physical books; when I buy them, I don't make any statements about how many people can read them.