This could be implemented by making the knife retractable, like a typical utility knife, and adding finger and palm print sensors to the handle. This ability could be used to coerce you on other matters, such as being late on paying the rent or utility bills or those parking tickets.
Maybe just a speeding or parking ticket would count. If you were ever convicted of a crime, or diagnosed as mentally troubled, the manufacturer could disable all your knives. They couldn't steal your knife and use it themselves or sell it to a 3rd party. Artists' bosses will have to accept this eventually.Īs an example, do you think it might be a good idea to apply DRM to knives? If a knife refused to function when held by anyone but the owner, you might think criminals could not take your knife and stab you with it, and so it would be safer. Sharing valuable information is more than a courtesy, it's the core of our lives. And you don't think about the millions who are robbed, by this implicit tax, because adding DRM to everything is very costly, and most of all by breaking our implicit social contract to love thy neighbor. You think only of the mythical starving artist who deserves a chance to make a living, and skate right past the point that copyright is not the only way or even the best way to profit from artistic endeavor. It's not only that DRM is unworkable, DRM is contrary to the social good. Take your own head out of the sand and face it, DRM is a broken concept.
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