1 Comment for Will denial of benefit solutions based on RFID end theft of optical media?

• 1. Doug B  |  November 13th, 2010 at 8:36 am

  I assume that your describing the situation where the producer of the media sets an RFID-enabled protection device into the media, that if opened without the RFID tag being disabled, would destroy said media, say by etching the media somehow. Would this end theft? Maybe, but the technology to destroy media in this way doesn’t exist in a cost-effective state for use on a large scale, at least not to my knowledge. Most RFID tags are used in the supply chain world to track the item thoughout its different stops automatically, like you tracking your UPS package, but without the need for a human to scan the item.

  I don’t understand the “reverse logistics” portion of your question. Reverse logistics is the process of the returning of an item to, most commonly anyways, the seller by the buyer so I don’t see the link to theft.

  In short, the answer is “no” because the cost to make an RFID-enabled theft deterrent system small enough, and safe enough to be used on say, a DVD, would far outweigh the value of the media. The value of the media that you would be saving if you foiled a theft would really be the wholesale cost of the item and not the retail cost by the way since thats the amount that the purveyor of the item would be out if the item was stolen, that and whatever labor costs it took to handle and stock the item.

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