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The problem I see is that I think what this guy is not telling everyone how they plan on uniquely identifing a piece of hardware. In computers they use a burned on code, but inorder for someone to tract that individual code you have to plug into the internet, a perfect example is plus dme, it used something like 7 individual hash marks in it reg, so that piriting it was virually impossible. from my understanding it bassically cross referenced everything, so if you changed your hardware or activated it to many times it went kapooey. The only other way I can see to actually track a piece of hardware w/o an internet connection is through your eletric company. You have to use a real name for them..
Basically I see it working like this. The electric company figures a way to individually and uniquely identify each home, apartment, dwelling that has electricity suppied to it. That code is then burned into each new piece of electric equipment that is plugged into the electric source, now every electrical piece of equipment is "known". Now comes this guys DVD player or what ever, you plug it in, it creates a hash sequence, unique to it, you by a dvd and play it, that dvd has it's own has sequence that combines with the has sequence that is in the dvd player, creating a new hash. Now say you decide to make a legal backup of that movie with your computer that has a DVD burner, once that movie is inserted into the computer, the same sequence happens. So now you have your copy, you give it to a friend, he plays it, the same sequence happens, now since the electric companys unique identifying hash is different, your copy that you gave to your friend sends a signal to the electric company saying hey i am copied and playing at a new location. your friend gives it to another friend, same sequence, and some government official knocks on your door accusing you of piracy. Granted this is extreme, and would take some engineering, teamwork, and money, but if the recording industry and the film industry get anymore serious about piracy this may become a very real problem in the future, and those industries have enough money to make it happen. The idea of tracking a persons viewing of material at home on their personal AV equipment makes me sick. The government allready spies on us too much, but spying on TV takes it far beyond that.
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